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Research Article| Volume 18, ISSUE 6, P407-408, November 1987

Shot in the neck in Spain (a rare cause of an isolated Horner's syndrome)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-1383(87)90288-9
Shot in the neck in Spain (a rare cause of an isolated Horner's syndrome)
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      Abstract

      Horner's syndrome is rare. A bullet wound in the neck is a rare cause of the syndrome, and it is exceedingly uncommon for a Horner's syndrome to be the sole noteworthy clinical result of a gunshot wound of this part of the anatomy. Two cases of bullet injury of the neck are described wherein a permanent Horner's syndrome was the only important sequel.
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      Publication history

      Accepted: March 12, 1987

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-1383(87)90288-9

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      © 1987 Published by Elsevier Inc.

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