Predominant sensory Guillain-Barré syndrome in hereditary sensory neuropathy--case report of a three-year-old boy.
We observed a three-year-old boy with increasing ataxia over a period of two weeks, which cleared up completely within four months. The electroneurographic features and their course in the child and the father allow us to suspect the additional existence of a hereditary sensory neuropathy. The authors put forward the hypothesis that the genetic disturbance of the sensory nerves is responsible for this clinical variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome.
D002675:Child, Preschool; D009477:Hereditary Sensory and Autonomic Neuropathies / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009431:Neural Conduction; D011129:Polyradiculoneuropathy / Q000150:complications*; D011930:Reaction Time; D013497:Sural Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology