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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

Corresponding Author

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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