Painful Horner's syndrome caused by carotid dissection
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Painful Horner Syndrome as a Harbinger of Silent Carotid Dissection
A 43-y-old white female presented to the hospital in July 2004 with pain in the left eye and left upper lid ptosis. She did not perceive any difference in perspiration between the two halves of her face. She was a nonsmoker and denied any history of head or neck trauma, or ocular, cardiac, vascular, or neurologic disease. Neuro-ophthalmological examination was normal except for 1 mm of left upp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2003.010348