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Klippel-Weil sign
Associated persons:
Maurice Klippel
Mathieu Pierre Weil
Description:
A phenomenon characteristic of the spastic syndrome: Passive extension of a flexion contracture of the fingers results in involuntary flexion of the fingers and abduction of the thumb in pyramidal tract disease.
Bibliography:
- M. Klippel, in:
Revue neurologique, Paris, 1909; 17: 506.
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