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Bilateral Facial Spasm Following Guillain–Barré Syndrome

By: Zain Guduru,  John Morgan and  Kapil Sethi  
Open Access
|Apr 2018

Abstract

Background: We report a patient who developed lower facial muscle spasm at rest and bilateral facial synkinesis several months after treatment of Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS); this finding, to our knowledge, is hitherto unreported.

Phenomenology Shown: Bilateral synkinesis, facial muscles spasm at rest, bilateral postparalytic facial syndrome.

Educational Value: Aberrant regeneration of nerve fibers post GBS, resulting in facial muscles spasm at rest, bilateral synkinesis.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/tohm.444 | Journal eISSN: 2160-8288
Language: English
Submitted on: May 6, 2017
Accepted on: Apr 6, 2018
Published on: Apr 24, 2018
Published by: Columbia University Libraries/Information Services
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2018 Zain Guduru, John Morgan, Kapil Sethi, published by Columbia University Libraries/Information Services
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons License.