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Horner's Syndrome Incidental to Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Excision: Case Report and Brief Literature Review

Horner's syndrome is characterized by a combination of ipsilateral miosis, blepharoptosis, enophthalmos, facial anhidrosis, and iris heterochromia in existence of congenital lesions. The syndrome results from a disruption of the ipsilateral sympathetic innervation of the eye and ocular adnexa a...

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Autores principales: Mastronikolis, Nicholas S., Spiliopoulou, Sofia P., Zolota, Vassiliki, Papadas, Theodoros A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4856912/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27200201
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7348175
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Spiliopoulou, Sofia P.
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Papadas, Theodoros A.
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description Horner's syndrome is characterized by a combination of ipsilateral miosis, blepharoptosis, enophthalmos, facial anhidrosis, and iris heterochromia in existence of congenital lesions. The syndrome results from a disruption of the ipsilateral sympathetic innervation of the eye and ocular adnexa at different levels. Though rare, thyroid and neck surgery could be considered as possible causes of this clinical entity. We present a case of Horner's syndrome in a patient after total thyroidectomy and neck dissection for medullary thyroid cancer with neck nodal disease and attempt a brief review of the relevant literature.
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spelling pubmed-48569122016-05-19 Horner's Syndrome Incidental to Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Excision: Case Report and Brief Literature Review Mastronikolis, Nicholas S. Spiliopoulou, Sofia P. Zolota, Vassiliki Papadas, Theodoros A. Case Rep Otolaryngol Case Report Horner's syndrome is characterized by a combination of ipsilateral miosis, blepharoptosis, enophthalmos, facial anhidrosis, and iris heterochromia in existence of congenital lesions. The syndrome results from a disruption of the ipsilateral sympathetic innervation of the eye and ocular adnexa at different levels. Though rare, thyroid and neck surgery could be considered as possible causes of this clinical entity. We present a case of Horner's syndrome in a patient after total thyroidectomy and neck dissection for medullary thyroid cancer with neck nodal disease and attempt a brief review of the relevant literature. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4856912/ /pubmed/27200201 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7348175 Text en Copyright © 2016 Nicholas S. Mastronikolis et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Horner's Syndrome Incidental to Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Excision: Case Report and Brief Literature Review
title Horner's Syndrome Incidental to Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Excision: Case Report and Brief Literature Review
title_full Horner's Syndrome Incidental to Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Excision: Case Report and Brief Literature Review
title_fullStr Horner's Syndrome Incidental to Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Excision: Case Report and Brief Literature Review
title_full_unstemmed Horner's Syndrome Incidental to Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Excision: Case Report and Brief Literature Review
title_short Horner's Syndrome Incidental to Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Excision: Case Report and Brief Literature Review
title_sort horner's syndrome incidental to medullary thyroid carcinoma excision: case report and brief literature review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4856912/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27200201
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7348175
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