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Table 4 Descriptions of post-traumatic GBS in the academic literature

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

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.

  1. GBS Guillain-Barré syndrome, F female, M male, EMG electromyography