Citation

Avellanal M, Fernandez-Quero L, Barrios JM, Sánchez P, Navia J. Intensive Care Med. 1996; 22(10): 1090-1092.

Affiliation

Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Madrid, Spain.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8923075

Abstract

Poufour du Petit syndrome is an extraordinarily unusual clinical condition produced by hyperactivity of the sympathetic cervical chain as a consequence of irritation of these nerves. It causes an ipsilateral mydriasis, which, in patients suffering a head injury as in the case reported here, can confuse the diagnosis and disconcert physicians.

Language: en