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Lhermitte's Sign Symptom Report

Lhermitte's Sign, sometimes called the Barber Chair phenomenon, is an electrical sensation that runs down the back and into the limbs, and is produced by bending the neck forward. The sign suggests a lesion of the dorsal columns of the cervical cord or of the caudal medulla. Read more...Click to read more below


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Report created on November 23, 2009.