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Barré's sign of the leg
Associated persons:
Jean-Alexandre Barré
Description:
Clinical sign of pyramidal disturbance. When the patient, lying on his stomach, flexes his knees to a right angle, if a lesion of the pyramidal tract exists, he is unable to maintain this position on the side of the lesion, but usually stretches his leg out.
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