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​Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Pupillary Dilation, Poor Response to Darkness
• Acute trauma (spasm from prostaglandin release)
• Adie’s syndrome tonic pupil
• Congenital miosis
• Drugs (narcotics, general anesthetics, cholinergics)
• Horner’s syndrome (sympathetic neuron interruption)
• Inflammation, infection (interruption of inhibitory fibers to the Edinger-Westphal nucleus)
• Lymphoma
• Old age (loss of inhibition at midbrain from reticular activating formation)
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