Gordon's sign

Gordon's sign is a clinical sign in which squeezing the calf muscle elicits an extensor plantar reflex. It is found in patients with pyramidal tract lesions, and is one of a number of Babinski-like responses.[1]

Gordon's sign
Differential diagnosisPyramidal tract lesions

The sign is named after Alfred Gordon.[2]

References
  1. Kumar SP, Ramasubramanian D (December 2000). "The Babinski sign--a reappraisal". Neurol India. 48 (4): 314–8. PMID 11146592. Retrieved 2009-04-13.
  2. Gordon's paradoxical flexor reflex at Who Named It?


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