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From: The usefulness of chief complaints to predict severity, ventilator dependence, treatment option, and short-term outcome of patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome: a retrospective study

Fig. 2

Neurological examinations and chief complaints. a Weakness, paraesthesia (including numbness/hypoaesthesia and pain), numbness/hypoaesthesia, pain, cranial nerve involvement, and autonomic dysfunction (including pain) were reported by 384 (73.42%), 170 (32.50%), 161 (30.78%), 19 (3.63%), 73 (13.96%) and 23 (4.40%) of 523 Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) patients. After neurological examination, doctors demonstrated that the symptoms mentioned above occurred in 461 (88.15%), 267 (51.05%), 223 (43.05%), 85 (16.25%), 236 (45.12%), and 289 (55.26%) of 523 GBS patients. Significant differences were observed for all the symptoms (p < .001). b The proportion was calculated by chief complaint (%)/neurological examination (%). It revealed that 83.29%, 63.67%, 72.19%, 22.34%, 30.93% and 7.96% of the GBS patients presented with weakness, paraesthesia, numbness/hypoaesthesia, pain, cranial nerve involvement, ataxia and autonomic dysfunction recognised these symptoms and contained them in their chief complaints. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001

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