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Transitory spinal cord swelling in a 6-year-old boy with Guillain-Barré syndrome
T Delhaas1, D J Kamphuis, T D Witkamp
1Section of Child Neurology, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Hospital for Children and Youth, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Pediatric Radiology
|July 15, 1998
Abstract:
A 6-year-old boy developed progressive motor weakness and areflexia. The clinical picture, combined with electrophysiological findings, indicated a diagnosis of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). MRI on admission revealed spinal cord swelling and increased signal intensity within the cord. It is concluded that, since a degree of central nervous system involvement can occasionally be part of the spectrum of GBS, swelling of the spinal cord without contrast enhancement does not exclude a diagnosis of GBS.