Guillain-Barré syndrome: celebrating a century

ABSTRACT A hundred years ago, Guillain, Barré and Strohl described a syndrome with a predominant motor acute or subacute polyneuritis, albumin-cytologic dissociation in the cerebrospinal fluid, and a benign course. Before them, many other authors, such as Landry, Duménil, Osler, and Grainger Stewart...

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Published in:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
Main Authors: Marcos R. G. de Freitas, Cecília M. Vidal, Marco Orsini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Revinter Publicações
Subjects:
Guillain-Barre syndrome
neuritis
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2017000800600&lng=en&tlng=en
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Summary:ABSTRACT A hundred years ago, Guillain, Barré and Strohl described a syndrome with a predominant motor acute or subacute polyneuritis, albumin-cytologic dissociation in the cerebrospinal fluid, and a benign course. Before them, many other authors, such as Landry, Duménil, Osler, and Grainger Stewart had described similar cases although they had not performed lumbar punctures. In this work, we outline certain features of the beginning of this famous syndrome.
ISSN:1678-4227

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