Atypical manifestation of pancoast tumor with neuropsychological disorders

Abstract

Introduction:Horner's syndrome was named after Swiss ophthalmologist Johann-Friedrich Horner(1831–1886),who first described it in 1869. The French physiologist Claude Bernard(1813–1878) also took part in the discovery of this particular syndrome, therefore it is also sometimes referred to as Bernhard-Horner Syndrome.It is one of the most known and rare neurological syndromes that can cause a rare clinical manifestation of the also rare Pancoast-type lung cancer.The Pancoast tumor, first described by the British surgeon Edward Selleck Hare (1812–1838) and afterwards by the Italian physician Publio Ciuffini(18??–19??) in 1911,was finally named after the American radiologist Henry Pancoast(1875–1939),and it is a rare and rapidly spreading peripheral tumor of the pulmonary apex.