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Rumpel-Konchalevskii-Leede phenomenon or sign
Also known as:
Hess' test
Rumpel-Leede test
Associated persons:
Alfred Fabian Hess
Maxim Petrovich Konchalovskii
Carl Stockbridge Leede
Theodor Rumpel
Description:
The appearance of minute subcutaneous haemorrhages below the area at which a bandage is applied not too tightly for 10 minutes upon the upper arm. It is characteristic of haemorrhagic diathesis and scarlet fever. This phenomenon is commonly used as a test for capillary fragility.
See also Grocco-Frugoni sign, under Pietro Grocco, Italian physician, 1856-1916.
Bibliography:
- T. Rumpel:
Photographien von Scharlachkranken mit multiplen Hautblutungen.
Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift, Berlin, 1909, 35: 2297.
- N. A. Konchalovskii:
Sluchai gemorrhagicheskogo diathesa. Trudi Mosk Ter O-va 1911: 232).
- St. C. Leede:
Hautblutungen, durch Stauung hervorgerufen als diagnostisches Hilfsmittel.
Münchener medizinische Wochenschrift, 1911, 58: 293-295.
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