Friedrich Horner
Swiss ophthalmologist Johann Friedrich Horner (1831–1886), eponym of Horner's syndrome, advanced ophthalmic surgery and neuroanatomical diagnostics
Tag Horner Syndrome
Horner Syndrome
Horner syndrome is associated with an interruption to the sympathetic nerve supply of the eye. It is characterized by the classic triad of miosis, partial ptosis, and anhidrosis +/- enophthalmos
Eponymous Triads
Eponymous medical triads, tetrads, and pentads: clusters of signs and symptoms aiding diagnosis and clinical teaching
Henry Pancoast
Henry Khunrath Pancoast (1875 – 1939) was an American radiologist. The Pancoast tumour and Pancoast syndrome is named after him
Pancoast Tumour
Pancoast Tumour is a primary bronchogenic carcinoma which arises in the apex of the lung at the superior pulmonary sulcus.
Silas Weir Mitchell
Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914), American neurologist and Civil War doctor, pioneered causalgia, phantom limb, rest cure, and erythromelalgia
FFS: Horner Syndrome
Horner syndrome is a neurological disorder caused by disruption to sympathetic innervation to the eye, presenting with ptosis, miosis, and anhidrosis
FFS: Lateral medullary syndrome
Lateral medullary (Wallenberg) syndrome is a rare brainstem stroke due to vertebral or PICA occlusion, presenting with vertigo, dysphagia, and cranial nerve signs.
Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard (1813–1878), French physiologist, pioneered experimental medicine, homeostasis, and glucose metabolism. Father of modern physiology.
Wallenberg Syndrome
Wallenberg Syndrome: neurological disorder with a variety of symptoms associated with posterior circulation ischaemic stroke. [AKA lateral medullary syndrome or posterior inferior cerebellar artery syndrome]
Coma and small pupils
You are asked to review a 65 year-old man who is comatose (GCS 3) with small pupils (2 mm bilaterally). He has a history of diabetes mellitus and bipolar disorder. He was discharged from hospital yesterday, following a surgical procedure.
Horner Syndrome
Horner Syndrome = unilateral interruption of ascending cervical sympathetic innervation eye and face.