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Clinical-surgical sign for testing the sufficiency of the collateral circulation in operations for aneurysmas. It gives information about the circulation in the peripheral vessels following the  ligature of an extremity artery.

Coenen in 1913 first published the sign. Henle in 1914 pointed out that the sign had been demonstrated by him in 1912 (Verhandlungen des chirurgischen Kongresses, 1912; 1: 134) and by Lexer in 1913 (Verhandlungen des chirurgischen Kongresses, 1913; 1: 113). However, Lexer had merely used the sign as indicated by Henle on a patient. It would thus be more correct to term this Henle-Coenen sign.


Bibliography

H. Coenen:
Zur Indikationsstellung bei der Operation der aneurysmen und bei den Gefässverletzungen. Zentralblatt für Chirurgie, Leipzig, 1913, 40: 50.

H. Coenen:
Zur Indikationsstellung bei der Operation der Aneurysmen und bei den Gefässverletzungen. Zentralblatt für Chirurgie, Leipzig, January 1914, 41: 91.

E. Lexer, in:
Verhandlungen des chirurgischen Kongresses, 1913, 1: 113

A. Henle:
Bemerkung zu der Arbeit von H. Coenen: Zur indikationsstellung bei der Operation der Aneurysmen und bei den Gafässverletzungen. Zentralblatt für Chirurgie, Leipzig, 1914, 41: 91.

Bernfried Leiber and Theodor Olbert:
Die klinischen Eponyme. Medizinische Eigennamenbegriffe in Klinik und Praxis. Von Professor Dr. med Bernfried Leiber (1919-2002), Frankfurt am Main und Dr. med Theodor Olbert, Düsseldorf, with the collaoration of Horst Naujoks (born 1928). Urban & Schwarzenberg. München-Berlin-Wien 1968.

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