loading...| Preferred Name | Horner Syndrome | |
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A syndrome associated with defective sympathetic innervation to one side of the face, including the eye. Clinical features include MIOSIS; mild BLEPHAROPTOSIS; and hemifacial ANHIDROSIS (decreased sweating)(see HYPOHIDROSIS). Lesions of the BRAIN STEM; cervical SPINAL CORD; first thoracic nerve root; apex of the LUNG; CAROTID ARTERY; CAVERNOUS SINUS; and apex of the ORBIT may cause this condition (MeSH). |
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http://uri.neuinfo.org/nif/nifstd/birnlex_12586 |
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2007-10-05 |
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| definingCitation |
Miller et al., Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology, 4th ed, pp500-11 |
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http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/reflex_sympathetic_dystrophy/reflex_sympathetic_dystrophy.htm |
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| definition |
A syndrome associated with defective sympathetic innervation to one side of the face, including the eye. Clinical features include MIOSIS; mild BLEPHAROPTOSIS; and hemifacial ANHIDROSIS (decreased sweating)(see HYPOHIDROSIS). Lesions of the BRAIN STEM; cervical SPINAL CORD; first thoracic nerve root; apex of the LUNG; CAROTID ARTERY; CAVERNOUS SINUS; and apex of the ORBIT may cause this condition (MeSH). |
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Horner Syndrome |
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D006732 |
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2007-10-05 |
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A syndrome associated with defective sympathetic innervation to one side of the face, including the eye. Clinical features include MIOSIS; mild BLEPHAROPTOSIS; and hemifacial ANHIDROSIS (decreased sweating)(see HYPOHIDROSIS). Lesions of the BRAIN STEM; cervical SPINAL CORD; first thoracic nerve root; apex of the LUNG; CAROTID ARTERY; CAVERNOUS SINUS; and apex of the ORBIT may cause this condition (MeSH). |
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Horner Syndrome |
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Oculosympathetic Syndrome Sympathetic Ocular-Ophthalmoplegia Miosis, Innervational Defect Claude Bernard-Horner Syndrome Bernard Syndrome Ptosis Sympathetic |
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