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Ross syndrome, an entity included within the spectrum of partial disautonomic syndromes
Author(s) -
BallesteroDíez M,
GarcíaRío I,
Daudén E,
CorralesArroyo MJ,
GarcíaDíez A
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of the european academy of dermatology and venereology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.655
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1468-3083
pISSN - 0926-9959
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2005.01254.x
Subject(s) - medicine , anhidrosis , hyporeflexia , hyperhidrosis , dermatology , surgery , weakness
Ross syndrome is a degenerative peripheral nervous system disorder defined by the following triad: unilateral or bilateral segmental anhidrosis, hyporeflexia of deep tendon reflexes and Adie's tonic pupils. The most disturbing symptom is segmental compensatory hyperhidrosis. It has only occasionally been reported in the dermatological literature. We present a 35‐year‐old woman with chronic hepatitis C who developed the characteristic triad of Ross syndrome within 1 month. The patient was otherwise healthy except for an aneurysm of the left medium brain artery not responsible for the syndrome.