The Babinski Phenomenon in Uremia
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The Babinski sign.
Joseph Babinski (1857-1932), a French neurologist of Polish descent, was the first person to describe extension of the big toe following stimulation of the sole of the foot on 22 February 1896 (Babinski, 1896). He referred to the sign as 'phénomène des orteils' (toes phenomenon) but it is now usually referred to eponymously as the 'Babinski sign' or descriptively as the extensor plantar response.
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Babinski's life and the story of the Babinski sign are summarised. The physiological basis of the sign is discussed.
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Rarely attributed to Babinski is a phenomenon observed in patients with hemifacial spasm (HFS), which he first described in 1905. This “other Babinski sign”1 is manifested as follows: “when orbicularis oculi contracts and the eye closes, the internal part of the frontalis contracts at the same time, the eyebrow rises during eye occlusion,” “this set of occurrences is impossible to reproduce by ...
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With the arrival of the total body scanner and the ubiquitous ultrasound machine, I wonder if I really need to continue examining my patients? Should I discard my patella hammer and tuning fork and just bring my laptop and personal digital assistant to work? What would Charcot, Rhomberg or Babinski think of all those computer printouts revealing the answers in black and white, without having to...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
سال: 1912
ISSN: 0002-9629
DOI: 10.1097/00000441-191201000-00024