Woltman sign

Woltman's sign (also called Woltman's sign of hypothyroidism or, in older references, myxedema reflex[1]) is a delayed relaxation phase of an elicited deep tendon reflex, usually tested in the Achilles tendon of the patient.

Woltman sign
Differential diagnosishypothyroidism or anorexia nervosa

Woltman's sign is named for Henry Woltman, an American neurologist.[2]

Associated conditions

The delayed ankle jerks are associated with:[3][4]

History

In 1924,[5] William Calvert Chaney (1888–1965),[6] who worked under Henry Woltman at the Mayo Clinic, seems to have been the first to publish a description of the sign, but Woltman had no authorship and was not mentioned in Chaney's manuscript. The eponym "Woltman's sign of myxedema" was first published in 1956 at the time of Woltman's retirement.[7]

gollark: osmarks.tk's experiment pages are just HTML/CSS/JS with no title bar or comment box or anything, plus metadata, and the blog stuff is Markdown. The static site generator compiles the markdown to HTML, and puts the HTML into templates, embeds styles and stuff, adds the achievement system code, and all that sort of thing, and produces HTML/CSS/JS for upload to my server.
gollark: APNG good, MP4 good, etc.
gollark: GIFs are just an awful format which only stuck around because animation.
gollark: GIFS BAD
gollark: Apart from being PHP, I guess.

References
  1. Houston CS (1958). "The diagnostic importance of the myxoedema reflex (Woltman's sign)". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 78 (2): 108–112. PMC 1829539. PMID 13489635.
  2. Woltman's sign of hypothyroidism, Who Named It?
  3. Dennis, Mark; Bowen, William Talbot; Cho, Lucy (2012). "Hyporeflexia/delayed ankle jerks". Mechanisms of Clinical Signs. Elsevier. p. 537.
  4. Marinella MA (2004). Kamath B (ed.). "Review of Clinical Signs: Woltman's Sign of Hypothyroidism" (PDF). Hospital Physician. 40 (1): 31–32.
  5. Chaney WC (1924). "Tendon reflexes in myxedema: a valuable aid in diagnosis". Journal of the American Medical Association. 82 (25): 2013–2016. doi:10.1001/jama.1924.02650510013005.
  6. William Calvert Chaney, ancestry.com
  7. Burkholder D; Klaas J; Kumar N; Boes C (2013). "The Origin of Woltman's Sign of Myxedema (P05. 256)". Neurology. 80 (7 Supplement): P05-256.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.