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unusual facts about Lhermitte's sign


Lhermitte's sign

This sign is also sometimes seen as part of a "discontinuation syndrome" associated with certain psychotropic medications, such as serotonin reuptake inhibitors, particularly Paroxetine and Venlafaxine.


Allen B. Kanavel

Allen B. Kanavel (1874, Sedgwick, Kansas – 1938 Pasadena, California) was an American surgeon remembered for describing Kanavel's sign.

Beevor's sign

The sign is named after Charles Edward Beevor, an English neurologist (1854–1908) who first described it.

Cecilio Romaña

Cecilio Félix Romaña (1899 – 1997, Barcelona) was an Argentinian physician remembered for describing Romaña's sign.

Daniel Turner

Daniel Turner (physician) (1667–1741), English physician who first noted the Auspitz's sign

Joffroy

Joffroy's sign, clinical sign in which there is a lack of wrinkling of the forehead when a patient looks up with the head bent forwards

Kussmaul breathing

Kussmaul's sign is also an eponymous finding attributable to Kussmaul, and should be distinguished from Kussmaul breathing.

Levine's sign

It is named for Dr. Sam Levine who first observed that many patients suffering from chest pain made this same sign to describe their symptoms.

Lhermitte–Duclos disease

Like cowden syndrome, patients with Lhermitte–Duclos disease often have mutations in enzymes involved in the Akt/PKB signaling pathway, which plays a role in cell growth.

Lisker's sign

Lisker's sign is a clinical sign in which there is tenderness when the front, middle (anteromedial) part of the tibia is percussed.

Louvel's sign

Louvel's sign is a clinical sign found in patients with deep vein thrombosis.

Mumoli's sign

The image was named after Nicola Mumoli of the Department of Internal Medicine, Livorno Hospital, Livorno, Italy.

Murphy's sign

The sign is named after American physician John Benjamin Murphy (1857–1916), a prominent Chicago surgeon from the 1880s through the early 1900s, who first described the hypersensitivity to deep palpation in the subcostal area when a patient with gallbladder disease takes a deep breath.

Nikolsky's sign

Nikolsky's sign is a clinical dermatological sign, named after Pyotr Nikolsky (1858–1940), a Russian physician who trained and worked in Ukraine, which was part of the Russian Empire at that time.

Robert Marcus Gunn

Robert Marcus Gunn (1850, Dunnet – 29 November 1909, Hindhead) was a Scottish ophthalmologist remembered for Gunn's sign and the Marcus Gunn pupil.

Romana's sign

It is named after Cecilio Romaña, an Argentinian researcher who first described the phenomenon.

Rose's sign

Rose's sign is a clinical sign in which the skin of one leg feels warm and stiff when pinched.

Strümpell

Strümpell's sign, clinical sign in which the patient's attempt to flex the knee against resistance elicits an extensor plantar reflex

Valentin Magnan

"Magnan's sign": An illusory sensation of a crawling foreign body being beneath the skin; a paresthesia in the psychosis of cocaine addicts.


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