Idiopathic harlequin syndrome: a case report and literature review

Harlequin's syndrome is a rare dysautonomic syndrome of the face characterized by sweating with flush of one side and anhidrosis of the contralateral side. Mostly idiopathic although several secondary cases have been reported in the literature, the purpose of the treatment is mainly aesthetic a...

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Autores principales: Elboukhari, Khadija, Baybay, Hanane, Elloudi, Sara, Douhi, Zakia, Mernissi, Fatima Zahra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6754854/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31558939
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.33.141.18102
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author Elboukhari, Khadija
Baybay, Hanane
Elloudi, Sara
Douhi, Zakia
Mernissi, Fatima Zahra
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description Harlequin's syndrome is a rare dysautonomic syndrome of the face characterized by sweating with flush of one side and anhidrosis of the contralateral side. Mostly idiopathic although several secondary cases have been reported in the literature, the purpose of the treatment is mainly aesthetic and functional. We report the case of a patient having harlequin syndrome in its idiopathic form with a literature review.
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spelling pubmed-67548542019-09-26 Idiopathic harlequin syndrome: a case report and literature review Elboukhari, Khadija Baybay, Hanane Elloudi, Sara Douhi, Zakia Mernissi, Fatima Zahra Pan Afr Med J Case Report Harlequin's syndrome is a rare dysautonomic syndrome of the face characterized by sweating with flush of one side and anhidrosis of the contralateral side. Mostly idiopathic although several secondary cases have been reported in the literature, the purpose of the treatment is mainly aesthetic and functional. We report the case of a patient having harlequin syndrome in its idiopathic form with a literature review. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6754854/ /pubmed/31558939 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.33.141.18102 Text en © Khadija Elboukhari et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of 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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Idiopathic harlequin syndrome: a case report and literature review
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title_full Idiopathic harlequin syndrome: a case report and literature review
title_fullStr Idiopathic harlequin syndrome: a case report and literature review
title_full_unstemmed Idiopathic harlequin syndrome: a case report and literature review
title_short Idiopathic harlequin syndrome: a case report and literature review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6754854/
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