Inverted knee jerk: a neglected localising sign in spinal cord disease.
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Two cases are described in which inversion of the quadriceps jerk was observed. It is suggested that the finding of an inverted quadriceps jerk is evidence of a spinal cord lesion at 12, 3, 4 segmental level and has for the lumbar cord the same localising value as the inverted supinator jerk for the cervical cord.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry
دوره 42 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1979