title: Criteria for the diagnosis of the Guillain-Barré syndrome. A critique of the NINCDS guidelines.
abstract: The publication of "official" criteria for the diagnosis of the Guillain-Barré syndrome designed for the purpose of aiding epidemiological studies, has resulted in excluding from consideration a number of fragmentary and atypical cases. Because it is a syndrome and not a disease entity, the limits are arbitrary. Several of the criteria are confusing and contradictory; they ignore a vast amount of literature which clearly documents the variability of the signs and symptoms.
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D011129:Polyradiculoneuropathy / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014481:United States