Unilateral cranial and phrenic nerve involvement in axonal Guillain–Barré syndrome

Rare encounter of unilateral facial nerve palsy in an adolescent with Guillain-Barré syndrome

“…Sakakibara et al 5 described a middle-aged woman with axonal GBS who developed unilateral facial palsy along with 12th cranial nerve and phrenic palsy. Our index patient did not develop any other cranial nerve palsy and had no suggestion of phrenic palsy.…”

Unilateral facial palsy in Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS): a rare occurrence

“…This patient also had unilateral facial paralysis. Sakakibara et al 7 reported a 49-year-old woman with axonal GBS who developed unilateral facial, hypoglossal and phrenic palsies. Kamihiro et al 8 recently reported a 2-year-old boy with acute motor-sensory axonal type of GBS who had unilateral facial palsy.…”

Acute motor-sensory axonal Guillain–Barré syndrome with unilateral facial nerve paralysis after rotavirus gastroenteritis in a 2-year-old boy

“…Facial nerve involvement is seen in 24-60% patients, but it was rare to encounter the cases of unilateral facial nerve involvement in GBS [19][20][21][22][23]. Some physicians reported such cases in adults: Sakakibara et al [20] reported a case of 49-year-old woman with anti-GM1-positive GBS with left facial, hypoglossal, and phrenic nerve palsies; Stevenson et al [22] reported a case of anti-GQ1b/GM1-negative GBS in a 35-year-old man who presented recurrent right-sided facial nerve palsy during plasmapheresis. Therefore, our case should be worth reporting because childhood GBS presenting unilateral facial nerve paralysis is thus far unreported.…”