Twelfth Cranial Nerve Involvement in Guillain-Barre Syndrome: A Case Report
Gizem Çifter
, Gholamreza Hoseinzadeh, Elif Simin Issı, Demet İlhan Algın, Oğuz Osman Erdinç
Eskisehir Osmangazi University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Eskisehir, Turkey
Keywords: Guillain-Barre syndrome, hypoglossal nerve, cranial nerve involvement
Abstract
Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is a common neurologic disease with paresthesia, albuminocytologic dissociation in cerebrospinal fluid analysis, accompanied by motor weakness, areflexia/hyporeflexia and mild sensory loss. Cranial nerve involvement is seen in 45-75% of patients with GBS. Of all cranial nerves, the 12th cranial nerve is the most rarely involved nerve and very few cases have been described in the literature. This case is presented because it is an atypical case with hypoglossal nerve involvement, as well as significant asymmetric impairment of the upper extremities.