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Overlap of Guillain-Barre syndrome and Bickerstaff's brainstem encephalitis
N Yuki1, K Wakabayashi, M Yamada
1Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Japan. yuki@dokkyomed.ac.jp
Journal of the Neurological Sciences
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
The nosological relationship between Bickerstaff s brainstem encephalitis (BBE) and Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) has yet to be clarified. We report results of the autopsy of a patient for whom overlapping BBE and GBS was diagnosed clinically. This and similar cases support the original authors' hypothesis that BBE is closely related to GBS.