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Is an EMG/NCS required to clinically diagnose Guillain barre syndrome?

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Neurology · Yale

GBS remains a primarily clinical diagnosis, characterized by rapidly progressive large fiber sensorimotor deficits with early arreflexia, supported by albuminocytologic dissociation in cerebrospinal fluid. EMG/NCS can be normal or non-specific in up to half of the patients in the first week and only...

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