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Variants of Guillain-Barré Syndrome: Miller Fisher Syndrome, Facial Diplegia and Multiple Cranial Nerve Palsies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

Ashfaq Shuaib  and
Werner J. Becker
Ashfaq Shuaib*
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary
Werner J. Becker
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary
*
Calgary General Hospital, 841 Centre Avenue East, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2E 0A1
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We report the experience at a large teaching hospital over a 10 year period with Miller Fisher Syndrome, facial diplegia, and multiple cranial nerve palsies. In these patients, absence of drowsiness on examination, normal cranial CT scans, albumino-cytological dissociation on CSF examination and slowing of nerve conduction, all suggest that a peripheral nerve dysfunction is the underlying mechanism. Pertinent literature is reviewed, in an attempt to separate these probable variants of Guillain-Barré Syndrome from brainstem encephalitis, with which they may be confused.

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Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , November 1987 , pp. 611 - 616
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Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1987

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