Paediatric Horner Syndrome: How much further to investigate?

Indian J Ophthalmol

Department of Nuclear Medicine Children's Hospital, Westmead; Division of Imaging Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

Published: November 2020

We report an infant with an early-onset Horner syndrome and normal urinary catecholamine levels. Further investigations with Nuclear medicine imaging withI-MIBG (meta-iodo benzyl-guanidine) confirmed a right thoracic inlet mass consistent with a neuroblastoma, a tumor of neural crest origin. The authors emphasize the need for investigating idiopathic acquired pediatric Horner syndrome and the value of an MIBG scan as a diagnostic test for suspected neuroblastoma.

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