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Kanavel's sign is a clinical sign found in patients with infection of a flexor tendon sheath in the hand (pyogenic flexor tenosynovitis), a serious condition which can cause rapid loss of function of the affected finger. [1] The sign consists of four components: [2] the affected finger is held in slight flexion.
Kanavel's cardinal signs are used to diagnose infectious tenosynovitis. They are: tenderness to touch along the flexor aspect of the finger, fusiform enlargement of the affected finger, the finger being held in slight flexion at rest, and severe pain with passive extension. [2] [3] Fever may also be present, but is uncommon. [4]
Allen B. Kanavel was born in Sedgwick, Kansas on September 2, 1874. [1] He graduated from the Northwestern University School of Medicine in 1899. He spent six months in Vienna, then spent his career at Cook County Hospital and the department of surgery at Northwestern University School of Medicine. [1] He married Olive Rosencranz on October 8 ...
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The Babinski sign – a reappraisal Neurol India 48 (4): 314–8. percussion of the tips of the toes causes exaggerated flexion of the toes Rotch sign: Thomas Morgan Rotch: cardiology: pericardial effusion: Rotch sign. (n.d.) Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing. (2012).
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