The undulating toe flexion sign in brain death

Movement Disorders

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 345-347

  McNair, N L ^a   Meador, K J ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain death; Spinal reflex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FLEXOR REFLEX; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; SPINAL REFLEX; STEREOTYPY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TOE;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN DEATH; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATERALITY; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; REFLEX, ABNORMAL; SPINAL CORD; TOES;

EID: 0026795602     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.870070408     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research. Guidelines for the Determination of Death
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3. Spinal man after brain death: the unilateral extension‐pronation reflex of the upper limb as an indication of brain death
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