Beevor's sign
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Beevor's sign is the movement of the navel towards the head on flexing the neck and was named after Charles Edward Beevor, English neurologist (1854–1908). It is caused by weakness of the lower abdominal muscles. Beevor’s sign is characteristic of spinal cord injury at the T10 level. It has also been described in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.
References
- Awerbuch GI, Nigro MA, Wishnow R (1990). "Beevor's sign and facioscapulohumeral dystrophy". Arch Neurol. 47 (11): 1208–9. PMID 2146943
- Pearce JM (2005). "Beevor's sign". Eur Neurol. 53 (4): 208–9. PMID 16015010
- Tashiro K (2001). "Charles Edward Beevor (1854-1908)". J Neurol. 248 (7): 635–6. PMID 11518013