Delayed Recognition of Guillain-Barré Syndrome in a Child: A Misleading Respiratory Distress

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Lacroix, Laurence E ^a   Galetto, Annick ^a   Haenggeli, Charles A ^a   Gervaix, Alain ^a  

^a Hopital des Enfants Hopitaux universitaires de Geneve   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Guillain Barr syndrome; meningismus; Mycoplasma pneumoniae; neuropathy; pediatric; respiratory failure

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CLARITHROMYCIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; ATELECTASIS; AUSCULTATION; BREATHING PATTERN; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DEHYDRATION; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; FEVER; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HEADACHE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LEG PAIN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOW TEMPERATURE; LUNG INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE; MENINGITIS; MONOCYTE; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MUSCLE TONE; NASOPHARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; NECK PAIN; NEUTROPHIL; OXYGEN THERAPY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RIGIDITY; SCHOOL CHILD; TACHYCARDIA; TENDON REFLEX; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VOMITING; WEAKNESS; WHEEZING;

CHILD; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 77952544213     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2008.02.063     Document Type: Article

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