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  1. Temporal lobe epilepsy is the most common type of focal onset seizure. Focal onset seizure with impaired awareness, previously known as complex partial seizure (CPS), account for 18–40% of all seizure types. H...

    Authors: Aleena Elizabeth Andrews, Naufal Perumpalath, Juvaina Puthiyakam and Andrews Mekkattukunnel
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:99
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  2. Retraction is necessary to access deep areas in the brain and skull base, but prolonged and forceful use of fixed retraction might be injurious. Several techniques were developed, in the concept of minimally i...

    Authors: Wael Mohamed Nazim and Mohamed Abdelrahman Elborady
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:98
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  3. To compare the frequency and pattern of cognitive impairment in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) and multiple sclerosis (MS) patients.

    Authors: Swati Kumar, Goutam Gangopadhyay, Atanu Biswas, Souvik Dubey, Alak Pandit, Shambaditya Das and Biman Kanti Ray
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:97
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  4. There is an evolving concern in the management of brain tumors in the elderly. The number of elderly people (aged 65 years or more) increases progressively, and there is a considerable percent of brain tumors ...

    Authors: Mostafa F. Tantawy and Wael M. Nazim
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:96
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  5. New-onset seizure (NOS) is defined as the first seizure within a 24-h period ever experienced by the patient. A first-ever seizure can be the first manifestation of epilepsy. Or it may be a symptom of a brain ...

    Authors: Mahmoud Hemeida Mahmoud, Eman Mahmoud Awad, Ahmed Khalil Mohamed and Mohamed Ahmed Shafik
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:95
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  6. Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative brain disease related to the accumulation of an abnormally aggregated alpha-synuclein protein. A hypothesis was presumed that this protein will be transported retrogradely...

    Authors: Said Salah Dahbour, Aseel Subuh, Rama Haddad, Tulay Al-Samardali and Aladdin Dahbour
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:94
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  7. Peripheral neuropathy is an underestimated problem of compensated liver cirrhosis despite its negative effect on quality of life. The aim was to assess the role of meticulous electrophysiological screening (ne...

    Authors: Mostafa M. Elkholy and Ragaey A. Eid
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:93
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  8. Meningiomas are one of the most common tumors of the brain and central nervous system. The key role of endocan in predicting tumor growth and prognosis has been shown for several types of cancers; however, thi...

    Authors: Mohammad Javad Fattahi, Fatemeh Sedaghat, Mahyar Malekzadeh, Amir Ali Nejat, Maryam Poostkar, Yousef Saberi, Mousa Taghipour and Abbas Ghaderi
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:92
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  9. New onset seizure (NOS) is defined as the first seizure within a 24-h period ever experienced by the patient. Cluster seizures (CS) or status epilepticus (SE) can be the first manifestation of epilepsy or it m...

    Authors: Mahmoud Hemeida Mahmoud, Eman Mahmoud Awad, Ahmed Khalil Mohamed and Mohamed Ahmed Shafik
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:91
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  11. Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a neurological disorder of unknown etiology and ambiguous pathophysiology due to cerebrospinal fluid dysregulation. This study is designed to evaluate the role of ...

    Authors: Ali Ahmed Abou Elmaaty, Carmen Ali Zarad, Tamer Ibrahim Belal and Tamer Sabry Elserafy
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:89
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  12. Depression is common in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and is an unmeasured risk factor, yet its symptoms can be neglected in standard disease evaluations. The purpose of this study was to assess the frequ...

    Authors: Eman M. Khedr, Rania M. Gamal, Sounia M. Rashad, Mary Yacoub and Gellan K. Ahmed
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:88
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  13. Parkinson’s disease is one of the neurodegenerative disorders that is caused by genetic and environmental factors or interaction between them. Solute carrier family 41 member 1 within the PARK16 locus has been...

    Authors: Hamdy N. El-Tallawy, Tahia H. Saleem, Wafaa M. Farghaly, Heba Mohamed Saad Eldien, Ashraf Khodaery, Sherif A. Sayed, Ahmed A. Helaly and Hassan Mohammed Elnady
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:87
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  14. There are several surgical strategies involved in the treatment of patients with tentorial meningioma, and choosing the most appropriate one is not straight forward. Our study aims to illustrate our experience...

    Authors: Hussein Mohammed Soffar, Mohamed Mohsen El Shimy, Hieder Al-Shami and Ahmed M. Salah
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:86
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  15. Idiopathic intracranial hypertension is a rare neurological disorder of unknown etiology. It is characterized by symptoms and signs of raise intra cranial pressure, normal brain neuroimaging, and high opening ...

    Authors: Mumen Abdalazim Dafallah, Elsanosi Habour, Esraa Ahmed Ragab, Zahraa Mamoun Shouk and Mohammed Izzadden
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:85
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  16. Disturbances in structural and synaptic plasticity have been linked to depression and suicidal ideation. One of the major neurotrophic factors, the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), is involved in the ...

    Authors: Amira Mohamed Yousef, Ghada Mohamed Salah El-Deen, Abdallah Saad Ibrahim and Amany Elshabrawy Mohamed
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:84
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  17. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has started in December 2019 and still ongoing. The disease has been expanding rapidly with a high variety of phenotypes from asymptomatic, mild respiratory tract i...

    Authors: Prysta Aderlia Sitanggang, Kumara Tini, Ni Made Susilawathi, Ida Ayu Sri Wijayanti, Putu Utami Dewi and Dewa Putu Gde Purwa Samatra
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:83
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  18. Nonsyndromic anterior plagiocephaly is one of the most common types of craniosynostosis. Different surgical techniques to correct this deformity have been developed with dissatisfaction among many surgeons. In...

    Authors: Mohamed Reda Rady, Mamdouh Abo Elhassan and Omar Youssef
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:82
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  19. Despite the recent advances in skull base surgery, microsurgical techniques, and neuroimaging, yet surgical resection of clinoidal meningiomas is still a major challenge. In this study, we present our institut...

    Authors: K. El-Bahy, Ashraf M. Ibrahim, Ibrahim Abdelmohsen and Hatem A. Sabry
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:81
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  20. The use of a distal cerebral protection device during extracranial carotid artery stenting is still a matter of debate. The aim of this work was to evaluate the safety of performing carotid artery stenting pro...

    Authors: Ayman H. El-Sudany, Shady S. Georgy, Amr S. Zaki, Rady Y. Bedros and Ahmed El-Bassiouny
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:79
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  21. Surgery of the brain tumors near eloquent areas carries the risk of either disabling neurological deficit or inadequate resection with bad prognosis in both situations. Awake surgery is the gold standard proce...

    Authors: Esam Abdelhameed, Mohamed Shebl Abdelghany, Hazem Abdelkhalek and Hytham Ibrahim Shokry Elatrozy
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:78
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  22. Neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus (NPSLE) is well known for its varying presentations and poor outcomes, but little is evident about its distribution and characteristics among the Bangladeshi popul...

    Authors: Fahima Hossain, Mohammad Delwer Hossain Hawlader, Dipak Kumar Mitra, Mohammad Hayatun Nabi and Md. Mujibur Rahman
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:77
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  23. Central nervous system involvement is rarely described in eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) and occurs in 5–9% of patients. Among central nervous system manifestations, cerebral infarctions ...

    Authors: Mirjana Arsenijević, Nikola Ivančević, Dejana Jovanović, Milan Radović and Ivana Berisavac
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:76
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  24. Cerebral stroke is a major source of mortality and morbidity. Duplex ultrasonography is used to evaluate carotid and cerebral arteries. The objectives of this work are to study the correlation between carotid ...

    Authors: Mohamed El-Sayed El-khatib and Shereen Ahmed El Ahwal
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:75
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  25. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is associated with significant systemic abnormalities which includes systemic inflammation and neurohormonal activation that are considered the main mechanisms of the path...

    Authors: Hossam Abd El Monem Ali and Ahmed Salama Al-Adl
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:74
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  26. Intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) with alteplase is the first-line therapy for acute ischemic anterior and posterior circulation strokes (ACS and PCS).

    Authors: Nourhan Abdelmohsen Taha, Hala El Khawas, Mohamed Amir Tork and Tamer M. Roushdy
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:73
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  27. Lateral medullary syndrome causing Ondine’s curse is a rare yet fatal brainstem infarction. Any patient presenting with lateral medulla infarction ought to be well observed and a polysomnography must be ordere...

    Authors: Hany Aref, Tamer Roushdy, Amr Zaki and Nevine El Nahas
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:72
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  28. There is increasing concern about the level of violence and people with schizophrenia. However, research about violence in correlation with schizophrenia mostly focuses on patients as offenders rather than vic...

    Authors: Iyus Yosep, Henny Suzana Mediani, Linlin Lindayani and Aat Sriati
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:71
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  29. Omentin-1 is a novel adipocytokine that is related to atherosclerosis-based ischaemic cardiovascular disease and stroke. Previous studies have linked its lower levels with poor stroke outcomes. We aimed to ass...

    Authors: Elham Nasif, Osama A. Ragab, Mahmoud E. Elhassanien and Ayman M. Al-Malt
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:70
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  30. Recessive homozygous haplotype (rHH) mapping is a reliable tool for identifying recessive genes by detecting homozygous segments of identical haplotype structures. These are shared at a higher frequency amongs...

    Authors: Swati Agarwala and Nallur B. Ramachandra
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:69
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  31. The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically affected everyone in a hit or miss manner. Since it began, evidence of the neuro-invasive potential of the virus has been intensifying significantly. Several pathways have...

    Authors: Nikita Mohan, Muhammad Ali Fayyaz, Christopher del Rio, Navpreet Kaur Rajinder Singh Khurana, Sampada Sandip Vaidya, Esteban Salazar, John Joyce and Amrat Ayaz Ali
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:68
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  32. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Initially, COVID-19 is a disease that attacks the respiratory tract, but now the clinica...

    Authors: Aditya Kurnianto, Dodik Tugasworo, Yovita Andhitara, Retnaningsih, Rahmi Ardhini and Jethro Budiman
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:67
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  33. Assessment of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients during the era of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was confronted with the overwhelmed healthcare facilities in Egypt and fear of the patients to ...

    Authors: Mohamed A. Abdel Hafeez, Dina A. Zamzam, Mahmoud S. Swelam, Alaa Abo Steit, Janet Masoud, Azza Abdel Nasser, Ahmed Hazzou, Eman Hamid, Hany Aref, Magd F. Zakaria and Mohamed M. Fouad
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:66
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  34. Immunomodulation, including IVIG and plasma exchange, is useful for a crisis or severe exacerbation. Plasma exchange may be slightly faster and more effective in a myasthenic crisis than IVIG. The aim of the c...

    Authors: Ibraheim Al-Ahmer and Hosna Elshony
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:65
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  35. The objective of this study is to assess the prevalence of major psychiatric disorders and to plot some characteristics of the schizophrenic sub-population in the study area.

    Authors: El Hassan Ouanouche, Hasnae Lamine, Asmae Tliji, Hajar Hourmattallah, Ali Ouichou, Aboubaker El Hessni and Abdelhalim Mesfioui
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:64
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  36. Severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 hit strongly and hardly the entire globe for more than 1 year with a morbidity exceeding 139 million and a mortality approaching 3 million worldwide since its e...

    Authors: Tamer Roushdy and Eman Hamid
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:63
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  37. A large proportion of painful diabetic neuropathy cases either do not respond or are intolerant to the currently available oral and physical therapies. There is encouraging evidence from a small number of stud...

    Authors: Shahinaz Helmy, Tamer Emara and Amr Abdel Menem
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:62
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  38. Stigma has been noticed towards patients with COVID-19 in several regions of the world. This social discrimination has contributed to delay in diagnosis and treatment. Also, it may increase the suffering of th...

    Authors: Hayam Mohammed Elgohari, Medhat Mohamed Bassiony, Mohammad Gamal Sehlo, Usama Mahmoud Youssef, Heba Mohamed Ali, Islam Shahin, Dina Sameh Elrafey and Rehab Saeed Mahdy
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:61
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  39. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative condition that has been reported following viral infections in rare occasions. Several neurological complications have emerged in association with coronavirus di...

    Authors: Walaa A. Kamel, Ismail Ibrahim Ismail, Mohamed Ibrahim and Jasem Y. Al-Hashel
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:60
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  41. Cerebral palsy (CP) has been identified as one of the most important and common causes of childhood disabilities worldwide and is often accompanied by multiple comorbidities. CP is defined as a group of disord...

    Authors: Dina Salama Abd Elmagid and Hend Magdy
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:13
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  42. Human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-G molecule has been suggested to have a potential immunomodulatory role in multiple sclerosis (MS). Genetic variant sites of HLA-G molecule have been reported to be associated wit...

    Authors: Wafaa M. Farghaly, Heba M. Saad Eldien, Mohammed A. Sayed, Hassan M. Elnady, Ashraf Khodeary, Abdelhady R. Abdel-Gawad, Hamdy N. El-Tallawy, Mohammed G. Abdellatif and Hazem K. Alhewaig
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:58
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  43. The description of childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) a benign self-limited generalized epilepsy has become a matter of debate. The objectives of this work were to evaluate the existence of psychiatric and cogni...

    Authors: Shereen Ahmed ELAhwal, Yasser Abo Elfotoh El-Heneedy, Wafik Said Bahnasy, Reham Abdel Rahman Amer and Khaled Hussein Rashed
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:57
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  44. Subcortical vascular cognitive impairment (SVCI) is a subtype of vascular cognitive impairment associated with extensive cerebral small vessel diseases (CSVDs) imaging biomarkers. The objectives of this work w...

    Authors: Mahmoud Ebrahim Mostafa Elhassanien, Yasser Abo Elfotoh El-Heneedy, Kareem Mohammed Ramadan, Mona Ahmed Kotait, Amr Elkholy, Mohammed Youssef Elhamrawy and Wafik Said Bahnasy
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:56
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  45. This review summarises and discusses recent findings concerning the pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and outcome of SARS-CoV-2-associated Guillain-Barre syndrome (SC2-GBS). By the ...

    Authors: Josef Finsterer and Fulvio A. Scorza
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:55
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  46. Burnout is a psychological syndrome defined as emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DP), and reduced personal accomplishment (PA) secondary to work stress. Burnout is widespread among medical workers....

    Authors: Zina Ali Al-Qahtani and Adel Alhazzani
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:54
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  47. With improvement of health care in last decades, the age of general population increased. As the elderly with degenerative lumbar disease needs to remain physically active for more years, lumbar decompression ...

    Authors: Ahmed A. Arab, Mohammed H. Eltantawy and Ashraf El-Desouky
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:53
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  48. Chordomas stem from notochordal vestiges and rank as low-grade bone malignancies although fraught with high risk of recurrence. This study assesses the clinical outcomes of twelve chordoma cases treated in our...

    Authors: Maria Karampouga, Fotis Tsetsos, Pavlos Sakellariou and Ioannis Baltas
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:52
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  49. Given the diversity of multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms including cognitive impairment in certain domains, the need to develop a rapid and at the same time thorough tool for cognitive assessment is mandatory a...

    Authors: Marwa Farghaly, Dawn W. Langdon, Nevin M. Shalaby, Hatem S. Shehata, Noha T. Abokrysha, Amr Hassan, Mohamed I. Hegazy, Alaa Elmazny, Sandra Ahmed, Shaimaa Shaheen, Alshaimaa S. Othman, Osama Yacoub and Nirmeen A. Kishk
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:51
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  50. Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is an acute polyradiculoneuropathy, often preceded by an infection. Rarely, it is preceded by a surgical procedure. Most of the postsurgical GBS cases are reported with the neuros...

    Authors: Sajid Hameed, Lubna Ashraf Jafri and Dureshahwar Kanwar
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2021 57:49
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