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Pourfour du Petit syndrome: a case following a traffic accident with severe cranioencephalic trauma
M Avellanal1, L Fernández-Quero, J M Barrios
1Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Madrid, Spain.
Intensive Care Medicine
|October 1, 1996
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.