Lisker's sign

Lisker's sign is a clinical sign in which there is tenderness when the front, middle (anteromedial) part of the tibia is percussed. It can be found in people who have deep venous thrombosis.[1]

Lisker's sign
Differential diagnosis	deep vein thrombosis

References

Assessment of the Elderly Patient: The Peripheral Vascular Examination: Venous Examinations at Medscape.

Eponymous medical signs for circulatory system

Heart murmur	Systolic heart murmur: Benign paediatric heart murmur (Still's murmur) Diastolic heart murmur: Pulmonic regurgitation (Graham Steell murmur) Aortic insufficiency (Austin Flint murmur) Carey Coombs murmur Mitral regurgitation (Presystolic murmur)
Aortic insufficiency	Watson's water hammer pulse/Corrigan pulse De Musset's sign Duroziez's sign Müller's sign Quincke's sign Austin Flint murmur Mayne's sign
Other endocardium	endocarditis: Roth's spot Janeway lesion/Osler's node Bracht-Wachter bodies
Pericardium	Cardiac tamponade/Pericardial effusion: Beck's triad Ewart's sign
Other	rheumatic fever: Anitschkow cell Aschoff body EKG (Osborn wave) angina pectoris (Levine's sign) Gallavardin phenomenon

Vascular disease

Arterial	aortic aneurysm (Cardarelli's sign, Oliver's sign) pulmonary embolism (McConnell's sign) radial artery sufficiency (Allen's test) pseudohypertension (Osler's sign) thrombus (Lines of Zahn) Adson's sign arteriovenous fistula (Nicoladoni sign)
Venous	Friedreich's sign Caput medusae Kussmaul's sign DVT Bancroft's sign Homans sign Lisker's sign Louvel's sign Lowenberg's sign Peabody's sign Pratt's sign Rose's sign Trendelenburg test superior vena cava syndrome (Pemberton's sign)

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