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Nikolsky's sign is a clinical dermatological sign, named after Pyotr Nikolsky (1858–1940), a Russian physician who trained and worked in the Russian Empire. The sign is present when slight rubbing of the skin results in exfoliation of the outermost layer.
The disease presents with the widespread formation of fluid-filled blisters that are thin walled and easily ruptured, and the patient can be positive for Nikolsky's sign. SSSS bears a resemblance to thermal burns or scalding , hence the condition's name.
Eponymous medical signs are those that are named after a person or persons, usually the physicians who first described them, but occasionally named after a famous patient. This list includes other eponymous entities of diagnostic significance; i.e. tests, reflexes, etc.
Nikolsky's sign (gentle lateral pressure) on unaffected mucosa or skin raises a bulla. If no lesions are present on examination it may be useful way of demonstrating reduced epithelial adhesion. If no lesions are present on examination it may be useful way of demonstrating reduced epithelial adhesion.
The Asboe-Hansen sign (also known as "indirect Nikolsky sign'" [1] or "Nikolsky II sign" [1]) refers to the extension of a large blister to adjacent unblistered skin when pressure is put on the top of it.
Nikolsky (surname), including a list of people with the name; Nikolski Air Station, an airport located in Nikolski, Alaska; Nikolskoye Airport, an airport in Kamchatka Krai, Russia; Nikolski, a novel by Canadian writer Nicolas Dickner; Nikolsky Old Believer Monastery, a monastery near Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery in Moscow, Russia
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Pyotr Vasilyevich Nikolsky (Russian: Пётр Васи́льевич Нико́льский; September 13 [O.S. September 1] 1858 – March 13, 1940) was an Imperial Russian and later Soviet dermatologist.