A 45 Year Old Female with Guillain-Barre and Optic Neuritis

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Identifier walsh_1994_s4_c1
Title A 45 Year Old Female with Guillain-Barre and Optic Neuritis
Creator Rodolfo J. Rios, MD; J. G. Odel; A. Camac; C. E. Thirkill; R. E. Lovelace; C. MacKay; P. Gouras; S. L. Goei; M. M. Behrens; M. J. Kupersmith
Affiliation (RJR) (JGO) (AC) (CET) (REL) (CM) (PG) (SLG) (MMB) (MJK) Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY
Subject Paraneoplastic Syndromes; Lung Neoplasms; Ocular Motility Disorders; Scotoma; Optic Neuritis; Guillain-Barre Syndrome; Paresthesia; Recoverin
History A 45-year old female with insomnia and back pain later followed by weakness and paresthesias of all four extremities and clumsiness.
Pathology Inflammatory neuropathy; Axonopathy
Disease/Diagnosis Paraneoplastic photoreceptor degeneration, peripheral neuropathy and opsoclonus, all secondary to small cell lung carcinoma
Clinical VA: 20/200 OD, 20/100 OS; Color plates: AO/HRR OU
Presenting Symptom Insomnia; Back pain; Weakness; Clumsiness; Numbness in all four limbs
Neuroimaging CT
Date 1994
References Attached
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Source 21st Annual North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society Meeting, Frank B. Walsh Session CD-ROM
Relation is Part of Case presented at the NANOS 1994 Walsh Session, April 8-10
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library - Walsh Session Annual Meeting Archives https://novel.utah.edu/Walsh/index3.html
Publisher Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, 10 N 1900 E SLC, UT 84112-7059
Rights Management Copyright 2008. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
ARK ark:/87278/s6nv9n09
Setname ehsl_novel_fbw
ID 177891
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6nv9n09
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