| 释义 |
Pancoast, n. Path.|ˈpæŋkəʊst|
The name of Henry Khunrath Pancoast (1875–1939), U.S. radiologist, used attrib. and in the possessive in Pancoast('s) syndrome, the clinical manifestation of a Pancoast tumour, caused by involvement of the brachial plexus and characterized by pain and numbness on the inner surface of the arm, atrophy of the small hand muscles, and Horner's syndrome; Pancoast('s) tumour, a carcinoma of the apex of the lung (described by Pancoast in Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. (1932) 22 Oct. 1391).
1941Dorland & Miller Med. Dict. (ed. 19) 1556/2 Pancoast's t[umour]. 1951Dorland's Med. Dict. (ed. 22) 1489/2 Pancoast's s[yndrome]. 1956Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Sept. 645/1 Pancoast syndrome is a clinical and radiological entity which can be produced by a variety of pathological lesions at the root of the neck. 1960Harmel & Taylor Rose & Carless's Man. Surg. (ed. 19) xi. 204 The so-called Pancoast's tumour of the lung, or a tumour arising from the first rib, may involve the brachial plexus and sympathetic outflow. 1974J. D. Maynard in R. M. Kirk et al. Surgery x. 216 Local spread may involve the recurrent laryngeal nerve to produce hoarseness, or infiltrate the brachial plexus to produce a Pancoast syndrome. 1975Rains & Ritchie Bailey & Love's Short Pract. Surg. (ed. 16) xxxv. 682 Pancoast ‘Tumours’.—These are essentially peripheral lung carcinomas arising at the apex of the lung. 1984Tighe & Davies Pathology (ed. 4) xiv. 128 A tumour arising near the apex of the lung may give rise to Pancoast's syndrome. |