An Unusual Case of Acute Infective Polyneuritis with Visceral Lesions

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THE terms "acute febrile polyneuritis," "acute infectious polyneuritis," "infectious neuronitis" and "Guillain–Barré syndrome" are commonly used to designate a class of diseases that are characterized by the acute onset of an ascending flaccid motor paralysis, with loss of tendon reflexes and sensory changes in the extremities, and by elevation of the spinal-fluid protein without pleocytosis. Facial diplegia occurs in some cases and, less often, bulbar paralysis. Paralysis of respiratory muscles results in death in 10 to 40 per cent of cases, and recovery is usually complete in the survivors. The cause of the disease is unknown. Although attempts to isolate . . .

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