Horner's Syndrome Occurring with Spontaneous Pneumothorax
- 23 November 1972
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 287 (21) , 1098
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197211232872117
Abstract
To the Editor: At the UCLA Hospital, we recently treated a patient for a spontaneous pneumothorax with sudden onset of transient Homer's syndrome. Sataline and Kraus (N Engl J Med 272:1227, 1965) described the only previously reported case of Horner's syndrome associated with spontaneous pneumothorax. Their patient was a 23-year-old woman whose symptoms disappeared after re-expansion of the lung by closed thoracotomy and water-seal drainage.In our patient, a 23-year-old man, chest pain had suddenly developed on the left side as he was getting out of bed on the morning of admission. There was no dyspnea or tachypnea. The pain . . .Keywords
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