Guillain-Barré Syndrome presenting with bilateral facial nerve paralysis: a case report

Bilateral paralysis of the facial nerve is a relatively rare presentation and often indicates a serious underlying medical condition. Guillain-Barré syndrome needs to be considered, among others in the differential diagnoses of such presentation. We present here the case of a 35 year old female who...

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Autores principales: Narayanan, Ram Prakash, James, Nirmal, Ramachandran, Kannan, Jaramillo, Mario J
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2627812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19063750
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-379
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author Narayanan, Ram Prakash
James, Nirmal
Ramachandran, Kannan
Jaramillo, Mario J
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Ramachandran, Kannan
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description Bilateral paralysis of the facial nerve is a relatively rare presentation and often indicates a serious underlying medical condition. Guillain-Barré syndrome needs to be considered, among others in the differential diagnoses of such presentation. We present here the case of a 35 year old female who presented with bilateral facial nerve paralysis due to the Guillain-Barré syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-26278122009-01-17 Guillain-Barré Syndrome presenting with bilateral facial nerve paralysis: a case report Narayanan, Ram Prakash James, Nirmal Ramachandran, Kannan Jaramillo, Mario J Cases J Case Report Bilateral paralysis of the facial nerve is a relatively rare presentation and often indicates a serious underlying medical condition. Guillain-Barré syndrome needs to be considered, among others in the differential diagnoses of such presentation. We present here the case of a 35 year old female who presented with bilateral facial nerve paralysis due to the Guillain-Barré syndrome. BioMed Central 2008-12-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2627812/ /pubmed/19063750 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-379 Text en Copyright © 2008 Narayanan et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Narayanan, Ram Prakash
James, Nirmal
Ramachandran, Kannan
Jaramillo, Mario J
Guillain-Barré Syndrome presenting with bilateral facial nerve paralysis: a case report
title Guillain-Barré Syndrome presenting with bilateral facial nerve paralysis: a case report
title_full Guillain-Barré Syndrome presenting with bilateral facial nerve paralysis: a case report
title_fullStr Guillain-Barré Syndrome presenting with bilateral facial nerve paralysis: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Guillain-Barré Syndrome presenting with bilateral facial nerve paralysis: a case report
title_short Guillain-Barré Syndrome presenting with bilateral facial nerve paralysis: a case report
title_sort guillain-barré syndrome presenting with bilateral facial nerve paralysis: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2627812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19063750
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-379
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