Medicine:Gonda's sign
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| Differential diagnosis | Pyramidal tract lesions |
Gonda's sign is a clinical sign in which flexing and then suddenly releasing the fourth toe elicits an extensor plantar reflex. It is found in patients with pyramidal tract lesions, and is one of a number of Babinski-like responses.[1] It is named after the Ukrainian neuropsychiatrist Viktor Gonda (1889–1959), who discovered it sometime in the mid-1930s while he was practicing in the United States . Gonda was one of the strong proponents of electrotherapy to cure psychiatric illnesses.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ "The Babinski sign--a reappraisal". Neurol India 48 (4): 314–8. December 2000. PMID 11146592. http://www.neurologyindia.com/article.asp?issn=0028-3886;year=2000;volume=48;issue=4;spage=314;epage=8;aulast=Kumar. Retrieved 2009-04-13.
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