Remembering the Rossolimo Sign

Euripedes Gomes de Carvalho Neto; Matheus Ferreira Gomes; Iuri Pereira Santos; Iuri Pereira Santos; Carlos Roberto de Mello Rieder

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Remembering the Rossolimo Sign

Euripedes Gomes de Carvalho Neto*₁, Matheus Ferreira Gomes₁, Iuri Pereira Santos₁, Marlise de Castro Ribeiro₂ and Carlos Roberto de Mello Rieder₃

¹Neurology Resident, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Brazil

²Professor of Neurology, Neuroimmunology Division, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Brazil

³Professor of Neurology, Movement Disorders Division, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Brazil

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Received Date: March 31, 2019; Published Date: April 24, 2019

Abstract

The Rossolimo sign is the flexion of the toes responding to tapping the ball of the foot, percussing the plantar surface of the great toe, tapping or stroking the balls of the toes, or giving a quick, lifting snap to the tips of the toes. Like the Babinski sign, it is a clinical reflex that demonstrates pyramidal tract dysfunction [1].

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Euripedes Gomes de Carvalho Neto, Matheus Ferreira Gomes, Iuri Pereira Santos, Marlise de Castro Ribeiro, Carlos Roberto de Mello Rieder. Remembering the Rossolimo Sign. Arch Neurol & Neurosci. 3(2): 2019. ANN.MS.ID.000560.