| Painless Aortic Dissection Simulating Guillain-Barré Syndrome |
| Eun-Jin Oh, Sang-Wuk Jeong, Jong-Kwan Park, and Keun-Sik Hong |
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| Copyright © 2005 The Korean Society of Clinical Neurophysiology |
| This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
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| ABSTRACT |
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A 61-year-old man with an antecedent febrile illness presented with progressive flaccid paraparesis, but no sensory or sphincter involvement. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine was negative and nerve conduction study (NCS) showed the absence of F-waves in his legs, suggesting Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). However, abdominal pain after admission led to the consideration of the spinal cord ischemia secondary to aortic dissection confirmed by computed tomography. We report the rare condition of painless aortic dissection simulating GBS. |
| Key words:
Paraparesis, Aortic dissection, Guillain-Barré; syndrome |
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