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MESSRS. GEORGES GUILLAIN; J. A. BARRE; A. STROHL

Arch Neurol. 1968;18(4):450-452.

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In the present note, we call attention to a clinical syndrome that we observed in two patients. The syndrome is characterized by motor disorders, abolition of the tendon reflexes with preservation of the cutaneous reflexes, paresthesias with slight disturbance of objective sensation, pain on pressure of the muscle masses, marked modifications in the electrical reactions of the nerves and muscles, and remarkable hyperalbuminosis of the cerebrospinal fluid with absence of cytologic reaction (albuminocytologic dissociation).

This syndrome seemed to us to depend on a concomitant injury of the spinal roots, the nerves, and the muscles, probably of infectious or toxic nature. It must be differentiated from cases of simple radiculitis, pure polyneuritis, and polymyositis. Experimental . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Translation of: Sur un syndrome de radiculonévrite avec hyperalbuminose du liquide céphalo-rachidien sans réaction cellulaire. Remarques sur les caractétes cliniques et graphiques des réflexes tendineux, Bulletins et mémoires de la societé medicate des hépitaux de paris 40:1462-1470, 1916.

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