A case of fisher-bickerstaff syndrome overlapped by guillain-barré syndrome

Case Reports in Neurology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 212-215

  Fujii, Daiki ^a   Manabe, Yasuhiro ^a   Takahasi, Yosiaki ^a   Narai, Hisashi ^a   Omori, Nobuhiko ^a   Kusunoki, Susumu ^b   Abe, Koji ^c  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION OKAYAMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bickerstaff's brainstem encephalitis; Guillain Barr syndrome; Miller Fisher syndrome

Indexed keywords

GANGLIOSIDE ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; AREFLEXIA; ARM WEAKNESS; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BICKERSTAFF BRAINSTEM ENCEPHALITIS; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIPLOPIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENCEPHALITIS; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMMUNOADSORPTION; LABORATORY TEST; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; UNSTEADINESS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; WEAKNESS;

EID: 84873189410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1662680X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000345847     Document Type: Article

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