Residua of Guillain-Barré Polyneuritis in Children.

A study of the records from the period 1950 to 1970 at the Elizabethtown Hospital for Children and Youth produced twelve patients with the Guillain-Barré syndrome. These patients were contracted in 1975-76 and each was personally examined. Ten were found to have residual weakness but in several instances the weakness was so mild the patient was unaware of it. Good correlations were found between muscle examinations during the acute recovery period and at final follow-up. Six patients had undergone various surgical procedures, and all of them thought they had benefited.