femoral nerve stretch test (FNST) / femoral stretch test test napięciowy nerwu udowego / objaw Mackiewicza / objaw rozciągowy nerwu udowego
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| Language pair: | English to Polish |
| Definition / notes: | A forgotten eponym: the Mackiewicz sign. In 1913, Dr. Jacob Mackiewicz, a Polish-Jewish neurologist, described a clinical sign (a maneuver) which indicates a femoral nerve injury or L4 root injury. He called it the "cruralis phenomenon", but in the German and Slavic literature, the sign is named after him: "the patient lies prone, the examiner lifts the thigh in one hand, with the other hand, bends the patient's knee slowly; this maneuver causes severe pain in the anterior part of the thigh and over the groin". |
| URL: | http://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/21800497/[A_forgotten_eponym:_the_Mackiewicz_sign]_ |
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