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Journal of Pediatric Neurology 2010; 08(04): 399-401
DOI: 10.3233/JPN-2010-0417
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart – New York

Recurrence of childhood Guillain-Barré syndrome as a pharyngeal-cervical-brachial variant: A case report

Mohammad Barzegar
a   Pediatric Health Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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Vahideh Toopchizadeh
b   Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
,
Shadi Shiva
a   Pediatric Health Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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03 May 2009

20 June 2009

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30 July 2015 (online)

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Abstract

Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is generally considered to be monophasic, but it may recur after interval of many years in 2–6% of patients. Patients with GBS usually experience the same pattern in a recurrence, despite the severity of the symptoms and the nature of the preceding infections varied. However, we present a patient who developed first episode of GBS as acute generalized weakness and areflexia in the four limbs and pharyngeal-cervical-brachial variant of GBS on second episode.

Keywords

Guillain-Barré syndrome - recurrence - pharyngeal-cervical-brachial variant