A child with isolated Horner's syndrome after blunt neck trauma

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 425-427

  Starr, Beth E ^a,d   Shubert, R Alan ^b   Baumann, Brigitte ^c  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Virtual Memorial Hospital   (United States)

^c RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blunt; Horner's syndrome; Miosis; Neck injury; Sympathectomy; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ANHIDROSIS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CAROTID ARTERY PULSE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EMERGENCY; EYE; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MALE; MIOSIS; NECK INJURY; NECK PAIN; OROPHARYNX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION;

BICYCLING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NECK INJURIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 1942420684     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2003.09.012     Document Type: Article

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