HUTCHINSON’S - INTERESTING FACTS
1. HUTCHINSON'S PUPIL ( NAMED AFTER SIR JONATHAN HUCHINSON (1828–1913).)
• THE PUPIL ON THE SIDE OF AN INTRACRANIAL MASS LESION IS DILATED
AND UNREACTIVE TO LIGHT, DUE TO COMPRESSION OF THE OCULOMOTOR NERVE ON THAT
SIDE
2. HUTCHINSON'S TRIAD
• IT IS A COMMON PATTERN OF PRESENTATION FOR CONGENITAL SYPHILIS
CONSISTS OF THREE PHENOMENA:
INTERSTITIAL KERATITIS,
HUTCHINSON INCISORS,
EIGHTH NERVE DEAFNESS
3. HUTCHINSON'S SIGN
• A SKIN LESION ON THE TIP OF THE NOSE PRECEDES THE DEVELOPMENT OF OPHTHALMIC HERPES
ZOSTER.
OCCURS BECAUSE THE NASOCILIARY BRANCH OF THE TRIGEMINAL NERVE INNERVATES BOTH
THE CORNEA AND THE TIP OF THE NOSE.
4. HUTCHISON'S DISEASE
(ABERCROMBIE'S TUMOUR , HUTCHISON'S SYNDROME/TUMOUR,PARKER'S SYNDROME,PEPPER’S
DISEASE,SMITH’S SYNDROME)
THIS SYNDROME CONSISTS OF A MALIGNANT TUMOR, OFTEN METASTASING TO THE LIVER, LUNGS, AND BONES.
5. PROGERIA ( "HUTCHINSON–GILFORD PROGERIA SYNDROME”)
• EXTREMELY RARE, SEVERE, GENETIC CONDITION WHEREIN SYMPTOMS RESEMBLING ASPECTS
OF AGING ARE MANIFESTED AT AN EARLY AGE.
• IT IS A GENETIC CONDITION THAT OCCURS AS A NEW MUTATION AND IS NOT USUALLY INHERITED

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    HUTCHINSON’S - INTERESTINGFACTS 1. HUTCHINSON'S PUPIL ( NAMED AFTER SIR JONATHAN HUCHINSON (1828–1913).) • THE PUPIL ON THE SIDE OF AN INTRACRANIAL MASS LESION IS DILATED AND UNREACTIVE TO LIGHT, DUE TO COMPRESSION OF THE OCULOMOTOR NERVE ON THAT SIDE 2. HUTCHINSON'S TRIAD • IT IS A COMMON PATTERN OF PRESENTATION FOR CONGENITAL SYPHILIS CONSISTS OF THREE PHENOMENA: INTERSTITIAL KERATITIS, HUTCHINSON INCISORS, EIGHTH NERVE DEAFNESS 3. HUTCHINSON'S SIGN • A SKIN LESION ON THE TIP OF THE NOSE PRECEDES THE DEVELOPMENT OF OPHTHALMIC HERPES ZOSTER. OCCURS BECAUSE THE NASOCILIARY BRANCH OF THE TRIGEMINAL NERVE INNERVATES BOTH THE CORNEA AND THE TIP OF THE NOSE. 4. HUTCHISON'S DISEASE (ABERCROMBIE'S TUMOUR , HUTCHISON'S SYNDROME/TUMOUR,PARKER'S SYNDROME,PEPPER’S DISEASE,SMITH’S SYNDROME) THIS SYNDROME CONSISTS OF A MALIGNANT TUMOR, OFTEN METASTASING TO THE LIVER, LUNGS, AND BONES. 5. PROGERIA ( "HUTCHINSON–GILFORD PROGERIA SYNDROME”) • EXTREMELY RARE, SEVERE, GENETIC CONDITION WHEREIN SYMPTOMS RESEMBLING ASPECTS OF AGING ARE MANIFESTED AT AN EARLY AGE. • IT IS A GENETIC CONDITION THAT OCCURS AS A NEW MUTATION AND IS NOT USUALLY INHERITED