Dr Chancellor describes a very interesting patient who illustrates well the heterogeneity of clinical features in patients who may be considered to have a variant form of GBS. The two features required for a diagnosis of GBS, as reaffirmed by Asbury and Cornblath in 1990,¹ are progressive motor weakness and areflexia. Areflexia includes both universal and distal areflexia (such as loss of ankle jerks and hyporeflexia of …