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Vasculitic neuropathy mimicking Guillain-Barré syndrome
S P Suggs1, T D Thomas, J L Joy
1Department of Neurology, University of Alabama Hospitals, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham.
Arthritis and Rheumatism
|August 1, 1992
Abstract:
Vasculitic neuropathy classically manifests as a subacute mononeuritis multiplex or polyneuropathy. Patients with a Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS)-like presentation are usually not considered to have an underlying vasculitis. We describe 2 patients with rapidly progressive areflexic paralysis that was initially diagnosed as GBS, in whom vasculitic neuropathy was found histologically.