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Anhidrosis:An Unusual Presentation of Diabetes Insipidus
Neurol 49:1708-1710, Shimizu,H.,et al, 1997
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Article Abstract
A 60-year-old man who had a 10-year history of anhidrosis was found to have idiopathic diabetes insipidus.He showed no spontaneous sweating or pilocarpine-induced sweat response.Skin pathology showed a normal eccrine gland.Microneurography detected no skin sympathetic nerve activity.Within a month of desmopressin treatment for diabetes insipidus,sweating and skin sympathetic nerve activity returned.
 
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