Fulminant Guillain-Barré syndrome after closed head injury: A potentially reversible cause of an ominous examination: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 595-600

  Rivas, Sharon ^a   Douds, G Logan ^a   Ostdahl, Roger H ^b   Harbaugh, Kimberly S ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Neurological Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Brainstem encephalitis; Fulminant Guillain Barr syndrome; Head injury; Miller Fisher syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGITATION; ARTICLE; BRACE; BRAIN CONTUSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; CONVALESCENCE; FALLING; FOLLOW UP; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LACERATION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTURE; NERVE BIOPSY; PARESTHESIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WITHDRAWAL SEIZURE;

ALCOHOLISM; GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 40549093971     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/JNS/2008/108/3/0595     Document Type: Article

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