THE PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE "GUILLAIN-BARRÉ SYNDROME"
Authors: M HAND, M RUDOY
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1948)

Article1 July 1948THE PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE "GUILLAIN-BARRÉ SYNDROME"MORTON HAND, M.D., MARTIN RUDOY, M.D.MORTON HAND, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, MARTIN RUDOY, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-29-1-91 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptTwenty years after the original description1of a clinical entity familiarly known as the Guillain-Barré syndrome, Guillain proposed to "delimit as exactly as possible"2the syndrome isolated in 1916, so that it might be "kept distinct from (the remainder of) the broad group of polyradicular neuritides with nonfatal outcome" which are seen quite often in neurological practice. In 1937, however, Guillain revoked his opinion of a year before without reservation. 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