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Tag Johann Friedrich Horner
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]
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