Twelfth cranial nerve involvement in Guillian Barre syndrome

Guillian Barre Syndrome (GBS) is associated with cranial nerve involvement. Commonest cranial nerves involved were the facial and bulbar (IXth and Xth). Involvement of twelfth cranial nerve is rare in GBS. We present a case of GBS in a thirteen years old boy who developed severe tongue weakness and...

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Autores principales: Nanda, Subrat Kumar, Jayalakshmi, Sita, Ruikar, Devashish, Surath, Mohandas
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3821433/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24250180
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.118804
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author Nanda, Subrat Kumar
Jayalakshmi, Sita
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Surath, Mohandas
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description Guillian Barre Syndrome (GBS) is associated with cranial nerve involvement. Commonest cranial nerves involved were the facial and bulbar (IXth and Xth). Involvement of twelfth cranial nerve is rare in GBS. We present a case of GBS in a thirteen years old boy who developed severe tongue weakness and wasting at two weeks after the onset of GBS. The wasting and weakness of tongue improved at three months of follow up. Brief review of the literature about XIIth cranial nerve involvement in GBS is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-38214332013-11-18 Twelfth cranial nerve involvement in Guillian Barre syndrome Nanda, Subrat Kumar Jayalakshmi, Sita Ruikar, Devashish Surath, Mohandas J Neurosci Rural Pract Case Report Guillian Barre Syndrome (GBS) is associated with cranial nerve involvement. Commonest cranial nerves involved were the facial and bulbar (IXth and Xth). Involvement of twelfth cranial nerve is rare in GBS. We present a case of GBS in a thirteen years old boy who developed severe tongue weakness and wasting at two weeks after the onset of GBS. The wasting and weakness of tongue improved at three months of follow up. Brief review of the literature about XIIth cranial nerve involvement in GBS is discussed. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3821433/ /pubmed/24250180 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.118804 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Twelfth cranial nerve involvement in Guillian Barre syndrome
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title_full_unstemmed Twelfth cranial nerve involvement in Guillian Barre syndrome
title_short Twelfth cranial nerve involvement in Guillian Barre syndrome
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3821433/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24250180
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.118804
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