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1Department of Clinical Haematology and Medical Oncology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia.
Abstract:
Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (Guillain-Barré syndrome) developed in three patients receiving chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia or the closely related entity lymphoblastic lymphoma, a relationship that has not been previously described. The HLA-A11 antigen was expressed by all patients, two of whom were Chinese, raising the possibility of a genetically-based immunological predisposition to GBS in this patient group.
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