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Tag Horner Syndrome
Henry Khunrath Pancoast (1875-1939) 680

Henry Pancoast

Henry Khunrath Pancoast (1875 – 1939) was an American radiologist. The Pancoast tumour and Pancoast syndrome is named after him
Pancoast tumour 1924 680

Pancoast Tumour

Pancoast Tumour is a primary bronchogenic carcinoma which arises in the apex of the lung at the superior pulmonary sulcus.
Wallenberg Syndrome 340

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]
Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914) 340

Silas Weir Mitchell

Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914) was an American physician and writer. Best known for his discovery of causalgia (complex regional pain syndrome type II or CRPS II) and erythromelalgia.
Neurological Mind Boggler 340

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.
CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Horner Syndrome

Horner Syndrome = unilateral interruption of ascending cervical sympathetic innervation eye and face.
CCC Critical Care Compendium 680

Horner syndrome DDx

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
Johann Friedrich Horner (1831 – 1886)

Johann Friedrich Horner

Johann Friedrich Horner (1831-1886) was a Swiss ophthalmologist. Horner syndrome, was so named following his 1869 description
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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