From: Clinical and electrophysiological features of post-traumatic Guillain-Barré syndrome
Author/Year | Number of case | Sex/number | Median age, years(range) | Antecedent events | Time from trauma to symptom onset (days) | EMG | Nerve biopsy |
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Rattananan et al. (2014) [1] | 5 | F/3 | 61 (35–68) | Surgery | within 30 days | Neuropathy with active denervation; | Perivascular inflammatory collections;increased axonal degeneration. |
Staff et al. (2010) [2] | 21 | F/11 | 65 (24–83) | Surgery | within 30 days | Neuropathy with active denervation; | Increased epineurial perivascular inflammation;17 patients had increased axonal degeneration. |
Huang et al. (2015) [3] | 4 | M/4 | 57 (50–69) | Spine Surgery: | within 1 week | Neuropathy and 2 cases with active denervation | not done |
Scozzafava et al. (2008) [4] | 1 | M/1 | 28 (28) | Spinal cord injury | within 1 day | Severe axonal polyneuropathy | not done |
Tan et al. (2010) [5] | 1 | M/1 | 44 (44) | Head injury | 1 week | Neuropathy with active denervation; | Presence of lymphocytes and severe axonal degeneration. |
Al-Hashel et al. (2013) [6] | 2 | F/1 | 39 (31–47) | Traumatic bone injury | within 1 week | 1 with features of mixed axonal and demyelinating neuropathy | not done |
Rivas et al. (2008) [7] | 1 | M/1 | 55 (55) | Head injury | 1 week | An inexcitability of all nerves with active denervation; | A severe loss of myelinated axons without significant demyelination. |