Recurrence of childhood Guillain-Barré syndrome as a pharyngeal-cervical-brachial variant: A case report

Abstract

Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is generally considered to be monophasic, but it may recur after interval of many years in 2-6% of patients. Patients with GBS usually experience the same pattern in a recurrence, despite the severity of the symptoms and the nature of the preceding infections varied. However, we present a patient who developed first episode of GBS as acute generalized weakness and areflexia in the four limbs and pharyngeal-cervical- brachial variant of GBS on second episode. é 2010 - IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved.