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LASÈGUE SIGN AND KERNIG SIGN

1951; American Medical Association; Volume: 66; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1001/archneurpsyc.1951.02320070078006

2330-9601

Robert Wartenberg,

Medical and Biological Sciences

You will find it very good practice always to verify your references, sir! —Martin Joseph Routh (1755-1854). LASEGUE SIGN THE STRAIGHT-leg-raising sign of Lasegue in sciatica (pain on raising the leg extended at the knee) is one of the best known in neurology. It ranks with those of Babinski and Romberg. Certainly there is no textbook on neurology or neurologic examination that fails to describe this sign. The present interest in the intervertebral disk has brought about a revival of the use of this time-honored sign. How, when and where did Lasegue first describe his famous sign? Ernest Charles Lasegue, of Paris (1816-1883), was an epidemiologist, internist, neurologist, and psychiatrist. In Volume 2 (1864) of the Archives generales de medecine , of which he was editor, he wrote an article, 1 Considerations sur la sciatique. This has become a classic. Naturally, it has been assumed by everyone that the sign was