Lacrimal sweating in a patient with Reader's syndrome.
A patient is described with a right-sided Reader's syndrome and extensive sweating in the frontal area above the right eye. This pathological sweating can be explained by sprouting of lacrimal parasympathetic fibres in the previous denervated sympathetic sudomotor pathways to that area.
D000328:Adult; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology*; D006732:Horner Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007765:Lacrimal Apparatus / Q000294:innervation*; D008297:Male; D010275:Parasympathetic Nervous System / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013547:Sweating, Gustatory / Q000209:etiology*