Iatrogenic Horner's syndrome: A cause for diagnostic confusion in the emergency department
Iatrogenic Horner's syndrome: A cause for diagnostic confusion in the emergency department作者机构:Department of General Medicine Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research
出 版 物:《World Journal of Emergency Medicine》 (世界急诊医学杂志(英文))
年 卷 期:2017年第8卷第3期
页 面:235-236页
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学科分类:1002[医学-临床医学] 100204[医学-神经病学] 10[医学]
主 题:in as of from up CVC for A cause for diagnostic confusion in the emergency department Iatrogenic Horner’s syndrome
摘 要:Dear editor,Horner s syndrome(HS)results from interruption of sympathetic nervous supply to the eye and manifests clinically with partial ptosis,miosis and enophthalmos,along with anhidrosis of face on the affected side.[1]HS is not an uncommon finding in patients visiting emergency department(ED),being reported in those with brainstem strokes,myelitis,malignancies of lung and thyroid,dissections of carotid and vertebral arteries,traumatic injury to neck and thorax and cervical or thoracic intervertebral disc herniation.[1]Some of the iatrogenic causes of