The features of Horner Syndrome are miosis, ptosis, enophthalmos, and anhidrosis on the same side as the etiologic pathology. Its causes include tumours, aneurysms, neck and chest surgery, and neck and chest trauma. This paper presents a case of Horner Syndrome due to a haemopneumothorax following penetrating chest trauma.

A 19-year-old girl developed generalised anhidrosis following typhoid fever. Elaborate investigations disclosed nothing abnormal. A skin biopsy revealed the presence of atrophic as well as normal eccrine glands. This appears to be the third case of its kind in the English literature. It is postulated that typhoid fever might have damaged the efferent pathway of sweating.

Idiopathic pure sudomotor failure (IPSF) is characterised by diminished sweating with sudomotor stimuli, causes hyperthermia, dry skin, and itch or tingling of the skin surface, and severely impairs patients' quality of life. The treatment options for IPSF are limited. Systemic corti-costeroid has been used (1, 2), but it is not consistently effective (3). Here, we present 2 cases of patients w...

We report the development of Harlequin Syndrome following thoracic epidural placement in a pediatric patient. Unilateral facial flushing with contralateral pallor and anhidrosis is the clinical presentation. This syndrome is typically benign. When related to regional anesthesia, treatment involves reducing the local anesthetic infusion or stopping it altogether.

Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis syndrome (CIPA); is a rare autosomal recessive disorder presenting insensitivity, sweating inability, and intellectual disability. The incapability sense temperature often leads recurrent severe inadvertent self-inflicted harm; these can result in complications, as patients settle slowly from skin bone harm. We present case of four-year-old boy d...

Acquired idiopathic generalized anhidrosis (AIGA) has an acute or insidious onset without additional symptoms. There may be eccrine gland dysfunction, and the beneficial effects of corticosteroids lend support to an autoimmune etiology.1,2 Lymphocytic infundibuloneurohypophysitis (LIN) is an inflammatory disorder that can result in central diabetes insipidus (DI); histologic findings showing in...

Resident in Dermatology, Federal Fluminense University, Antônio Pedro Hospital, Department of Dermatology, Niteroi RJ, Brazil; Resident in Neurology, Federal Fluminense University, Antônio Pedro Hospital, Department of Neurology, Niterói RJ, Brazil; Professor of the Dermatology Department, Federal Fluminense University, Antônio Pedro Hospital, Department of Dermatology, Niteroi RJ, Brazil; Chai...

Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis is a rare disease of the nervous system which causes one to lose his/her feeling of pain. The disease is subtype four of hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy (HSAN IV) that results from NTRK1 gene defect. Direct sequencing was performed to screen NTRK1 for mutations. The result revealed a homozygous deletion of adenine on intron 14 that ma...