IVIG- responsive multiple cranial neuropathy: A pharyngo-facial variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome

Acta Neurologica Belgica

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 317-321

  Unal Cevik, Isin ^a   Onal, Mehmet Zulkuf ^a   Odabasi, Zeki ^b   Tan, Ersin ^c  

^a UFUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^c HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bilateral facial diplegia; Dysphagia; Guillain Barr syndrome; Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy; Neuropathy

Indexed keywords

GANGLIOSIDE ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DEMYELINATION; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENTERIC FEEDING; EYE SWELLING; EYELID; FACE; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE DISEASE; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LATENT PERIOD; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE DENERVATION; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PTOSIS; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SKIN BIOPSY; SURAL NERVE; SWELLING; SYMPTOM; THORAX; TONGUE DISEASE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VAGUS NERVE DISEASE;

EID: 75149140994     PISSN: 03009009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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