"Pseudospasticity" in Guillain-Barré syndrome

Neurology. 1991 Jan;41(1):131-4. doi: 10.1212/wnl.41.1.131.

Abstract

We report a woman with Guillain-Barré syndrome who developed a flexion posture of the right arm and hand resembling upper motor neuron dysfunction. EMG demonstrated that involuntary peripherally generated continuous motor unit discharges caused the posture.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Extremities
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Motor Neurons / physiology
  • Muscle Rigidity
  • Muscle Spasticity / etiology*
  • Muscles / innervation
  • Neural Conduction
  • Polyradiculoneuropathy / complications*
  • Polyradiculoneuropathy / physiopathology
  • Posture
  • Recruitment, Neurophysiological
  • Sensation
  • Time Factors