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authors: Yang, Hwa Been; Lee, Hyung-Soo
title: Facial Diplegia: A Rare Subtype of Guillain-Barré Syndrome in a Patient With Minimally Symptomatic COVID-19
date: 2021-08-12
journal: J Clin Neurol
DOI: 10.3988/jcn.2021.17.4.590
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doc_id: 963440
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improved, but the latency of the distal motor nerve and late response had improved slightly (Supplementary Table 1 in the online-only Data Supplement).

This report suggests that in the current pandemic, patients visiting a hospital with new-onset neurological symptoms should undergo COVID-19 testing as part of their evaluation, even when they have no or only mild COVID-19 symptoms. To help clinicians better understand the disease, further characterization of GBS and other neurological symptoms associated with COVID-19 is needed.

The online-only Data Supplement is available with this article at https://doi.org/10.3988/jcn.2021.17.4.590.

All procedures in this study involving human participants were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the Institutional Review Board of Korea University, Ansan Hospital and with the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Informed consent was obtained from the patient for posting and use of photographs. 

Data curation: Hwa Been Yang, Hyung-Soo Lee. Investigation: Hwa Been Yang, Hyung-Soo Lee. Supervision: Hyung-Soo Lee. Writing-original draft: Hwa Been Yang, Hyung-Soo Lee. Writing-review & editing: Hwa Been Yang

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Neurological associations of COVID-19

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Guillain-Barré syndrome associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection. A systematic review

A Guillain-Barré syndrome variant with prominent facial diplegia

The authors have no potential conflicts of interest to disclose.

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