Fulminant Guillain-Barre syndrome with universal inexcitability of peripheral nerves: A clinicopathological study

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 846-857

  Berciano, José ^a   Figols, Javier ^a   Garcia, Antonio ^a   Calle, Ester ^b   Illa, Isabel ^c   Lafarga, Miguel ^b   Berciano, Maria T ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Axons; Campylobacter jejuni; Demyelination; Myelin sheath; Polyradiculoneuritis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CASE REPORT; DEMYELINATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENDONEURIUM; FEMORAL NERVE; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL ROOT; SURAL NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; AXONS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACIAL NERVE; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PERONEAL NERVE; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; TIBIAL NERVE; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

EID: 0030900059     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199707)20:7<846::AID-MUS9>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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