Guillain-Barré syndrome in childhood:
case report
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.34024/rnc.2007.v15.8682Keywords:
Guillain-Barré Syndrome, Polyneurophaties, ChildAbstract
Guillain-Barré syndrome can be defined as an acute or subacute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy, characterized clinically for tetraparesis or tetraplegia, areflexia, and albumino-cytological dissociation in cerebrospinal fluid. It is an acquired polyneuropathy, that may occur in children,
with an ascending manner, frequently preceded by respiratory or gastrointestinal infection. We reported a case of a patient, 4 years old, male, with Guillain-Barré syndrome diagnosis and bilateral eletrophysiological residual impairment of common fibular nerve.
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