Sensory Guillain-Barré syndrome and related disorders: An attempt at systematization

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 464-470

  Uncini, Antonino ^a,b   Yuki, Nobuhiro ^c  

^a Ospedale Civico Lugano   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Acute sensory ataxic neuropathy; Acute small fiber sensory neuropathy; Ataxic Guillain Barr syndrome; Guillain Barr syndrome; Sensory Guillain Barr syndrome

Indexed keywords

ACUTE AUTONOMIC AND SENSORY GANGLIONOPATHY; ACUTE SENSORY DEMYELINATING POLYNEUROPATHY; ACUTE SENSORY LARGE FIBER AXONOPATHY GANGLIONOPATHY; ACUTE SENSORY SMALL FIBER NEUROPATHY GANGLIONOPATHY.; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMYELINATING NEUROPATHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; AUTOPSY; CELL SIZE; CLASSIFICATION; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; NERVE FIBER; NOMENCLATURE; PATHOLOGY; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SENSORY GANGLION; SENSORY RECEPTOR;

AUTONOMIC FIBERS, PREGANGLIONIC; AUTOPSY; AXONS; CELL SIZE; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GANGLIA, SENSORY; GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME; HUMANS; NERVE FIBERS; SENSATION DISORDERS; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84860341172     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.22298     Document Type: Article

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