Multiple choice

A 43-year-old lady has some facial weakness, a poor cough and weakness of the arms and legs with no reflexes and a loss of feeling to light touch and pin-prick to the wrist and ankle. She must be suffering from

  1. motor neurone disease

  2. Guillain Barre syndrome

  3. spinal cord compression

  4. myasthenia gravis

  5. Campylobacter jejuni
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Guillain Barre syndrome show evidence of slowing of nerve conduction as the condition is an acute demyelinating inflammatory neuropathy affecting all peripheral nerves as well as some of the cranial nerves.

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