Miller Fisher

Charles Miller Fisher ( born December 5, 1913 in Waterloo ( Ontario), † April 14, 2012 in Albany (New York)) was a Canadian neurologist.

Scientific performance

Fisher was known among other things for the description of a variant of today as Guillain -Barré syndrome (GBS ) designated acute polyradiculitis. The variant was described in 1956 by Fisher in terms of three cases and was characterized by a syndrome of ophthalmoplegia, ataxia and areflexia. This variant is now commonly referred to as Miller - Fisher syndrome.

Works (selection)

• M. Fisher: An unusual variant of acute idiopathic polyneuritis ( syndrome of ophthalmoplegia, ataxia and areflexia ). In: The New England journal of medicine. Volume 255, Number 2, July 1956, pp. 57-65, ISSN 0028-4793. doi: 10.1056/NEJM195607122550201. PMID 13,334,797th
• Fisher CM: A lacunar stroke: the Dysarthria - clumsy hand syndrome. In: Neurology. Volume 17, 1967, pp. 614-617. full text