| Pancoast's Syndrome Secondary to Infectious Etiologies: A Not So Uncommon Occurrence. | |
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PMID: 21030854 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Pancoast's syndrome includes Horner's syndrome, atrophy of the hand muscles and shoulder, axilla or arm pain. This syndrome is caused by an apical thoracic lesion, most commonly a bronchogenic carcinoma, which invades the brachial plexus roots and the cervicothoracic sympathetic chain. Several nonmalignant causes are documented in the literature with infection being one. After a case of Pancoast syndrome caused by a methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus empyema, we began a systematic search of the literature to identify case reports/series of Pancoast syndrome secondary to infection. Our search was limited to the English language and performed using MEDLINE. Thirty-one cases of Pancoast's syndrome secondary to infectious causes were found in our review of the literature. The infectious causes identified were bacterial, fungal and parasitic organisms; however, no single organism could be identified as the most prevalent. Our review represents the most complete summation of individual case reports on this subject and highlights clinical characteristics of each presentation and the organisms that were encountered. This number of cases of Pancoast's syndrome secondary to infectious causes indicates that this association may be more common than previously reported. |
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Heath D White; Bobbie Ann A White; Carl Boethel; Alejandro C Arroliga |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: The American journal of the medical sciences Volume: 341 ISSN: 1538-2990 ISO Abbreviation: Am. J. Med. Sci. Publication Date: 2011 Apr |
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Created Date: 2011-03-24 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0370506 Medline TA: Am J Med Sci Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 333-6 Citation Subset: AIM; IM |
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From the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine (hdw, cb, aca), Department of Internal Medicine, Scott and White Hospital, Temple, Texas; and Department of Internal Medicine (baaw), Texas A&M Health Science Center, College of Medicine, Temple, Texas. |
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