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Cureus
April 2023
Department of Radiology, Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social, San Salvador, SLV.
Pourfour du Petit Syndrome (PdPS) is characterized by signs of oculosympathetic hyperactivity caused by irritation in the oculosympathetic pathway and shares etiologies with Horner Syndrome. We present the case of a 64-year-old woman with Pourfour du Petit syndrome due to compression of the second-order cervical sympathetic chain neuron from a dominant and prominent right internal jugular vein compensatory for contralateral agenesis. Internal jugular vein agenesis is a rare developmental vascular anomaly and is asymptomatic in the majority of patients with this condition.
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May 2023
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.
The first successful planned extracapsular cataract extraction was reported by Jacques Daviel in 1752. The history of European cataract surgery in the first half of the 18th century, immediately preceding Daviel's report, contains interesting information that explains the foundations of this accomplishment. Daviel himself credited the prior work of Francois Pourfour du Petit.
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June 2022
Department of Ophthalmology, Hospital Universitario Príncipe de Asturias, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
Endocrinol Diabetes Nutr (Engl Ed)
May 2021
Servicio de Neurología, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Albacete, Albacete, Spain.
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