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Guillain-Barré syndrome as an atypical manifestation of an esophageal carcinoma.
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Guillain-Barré syndrome as an atypical manifestation of an esophageal carcinoma.

  • Zilli T Department of Radiation Oncology, Geneva University Hospital, 1211, Geneva 14, Switzerland. thomaszilli@inwind.it
  • Allal AS
  • 2010-07-20
Published in:
  • Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology. - 2011
Aged
Carcinoma
Esophageal Neoplasms
Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Humans
Male
English Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an acute demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy normally associated with a preceding infection, but sometimes it can be linked to a subjacent malignancy. We report an unusual case of GBS occurring as the first clinical manifestation of an esophageal adenocarcinoma in a 65-year-old patient. A GBS neuropathy of undetermined origin may be associated with an underlying tumor and esophageal cancer has to be considered in the differential diagnosis.
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