[Facial diplegia with atypical paresthesia. A variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome].

Guillain-Barré syndrome is an acute demyelinating disease which presents in a classic form with muscular weakness and the lack of reflexes. There are multiple variations and atypical forms of the disease, being facial diplegia with paresthesia one of them. Also, the absence of reflexes in this syndrome is typical but not constant, since 10% of patients present reflexes.

[Hepatic abscess as first manifestation of pneumococcal invasive disease].

Pneumococcal invasive disease is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in different population groups. Most cases originate from an airway infection. We describe a patient with diabetes mellitus who presented a liver abscess as first manifestation of pneumococcal invasive disease, without respiratory symptoms.