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Sensory symptoms are sometimes the mode of presentation in Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), but motor weakness usually develops during the course of the disease. Cases of GBS-like illness with purely sensory symptoms are rare and difficult to diagnose. During a 13-year period, these authors observed 8 patients with acute sensory neuropathy that met most of the diagnostic criteria for sensory GBS.
All patients experienced a sudden onset of sensory symptoms (accompanied by hyporeflexia or areflexia on exam) that reached maximal deficit within 4 weeks. Antecedent viral illness was observed in 5 of 8 patients. Albuminocytologic dissociation was seen in 4 patients whose spinal fluid was examined during the first 4 weeks of disease. All patients had…