[Horner's Syndrome: an unusual ophthalmological presentation of Hodgkin lymphoma]

An Sist Sanit Navar. 2017 Dec 29;40(3):461-466. doi: 10.23938/ASSN.0117.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

Horner's Syndrome (HS) is a neurological syndrome characterised by the triad incomplete pupillary miosis, palpebral ptosis and facial anhidrosis, due to a lesion of the oculosympathetic pathway, formed of three neurons from the hipothalamus to the eye. Identifying its cause is a diagnostic challenge since in spite of its apparent lack of clinical importance, HS can be the first or only manifestation of a serious, or even potentially mortal disorder. We present the case of a 19-year-old male patient with a history of nonspecific ocular pains of two months evolution. He attended the emergency ophthalmological clinic where he was diagnosed with an HS as the first clinical manifestation of Hodgkin lymphoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Hodgkin Disease / complications*
  • Horner Syndrome / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Young Adult