Sándor Márai and his account of painful Guillain‐Barré syndrome

Abstract

Pain is the most frequent sensory symptom of Guillain–Barre syndrome (GBS) but is often underdiagnosed in clinical practice (Pentland & Donald, 1994; Ruts et al., 2010). Significant pain was not described in the first reports of GBS made by Landry, Guillain, Barré, and Strohl (Guillain, Barré, & Strohl, 1916; Landry, 1859). We would like to draw attention to the fact that the Hungarian author Sándor Márai described the painful component of GBS, undoubtedly based upon his own observations, before it was documented in the medical literature.

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