GUILLAIN-BARRÉ SYNDROME ASSOCIATED WITH PORPHYRINURIA
Authors: R F PINO
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1960)

Case Reports1 September 1960GUILLAIN-BARRÉ SYNDROME ASSOCIATED WITH PORPHYRINURIARICHARD F. PINO, M.D.RICHARD F. PINO, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-53-3-600 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIt is not too uncommon to find in the literature cases first diagnosed as Guillain-Barré syndrome that eventually prove to be porphyria. This contingency usually occurs when an alert observer notices the dark urine characteristic of porphyria, or when, in spite of a normally colored urine, the symptomatology makes one suspicious and, on examining the urine, one finds the pathognomonic porphyrins or precursors. 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