title: An atypical presentation of an acute neurological illness: acute motor axonal neuropathy.
abstract: Pain is a common symptom amongst patients presenting to the Acute Medical Unit, with an extensive differential diagnosis. We present the case of a patient with back and lower limb pain where the diagnosis of an atypical form of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) was made. Acute physicians must be vigilant to the less common presentations of GBS and the variations from the "classical" presentation of ascending flaccid paralysis.
authors.affiliation: Newham University Hospital, London.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lander
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Eyres
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gerofke
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D001416:Back Pain / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D020275:Guillain-Barre Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018908:Muscle Weakness / Q000209:etiology; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000503:physiopathology; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D006113:United Kingdom