Tag Horner Syndrome
Horner Syndrome 680

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

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.

Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914) 680

Silas Weir Mitchell

Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914), American neurologist and Civil War doctor, pioneered causalgia, phantom limb, rest cure, and erythromelalgia

Johann Friedrich Horner (1831 – 1886)

Johann Horner

Swiss ophthalmologist Johann Friedrich Horner (1831–1886), eponym of Horner's syndrome, advanced ophthalmic surgery and neuroanatomical diagnostics

Claude Bernard (1813-1878) 680

Claude Bernard

Claude Bernard (1813–1878), French physiologist, pioneered experimental medicine, homeostasis, and glucose metabolism. Father of modern physiology.

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]

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