In 1913, Dr. Jacob Mackiewicz, a Polish-Jewish neurologist, described a clinical sign (a maneuver) which indicates a femoral nerve injury or L4 root injury. He called it the "cruralis phenomenon", but in the German and Slavic literature, the sign is named after him: "the patient lies prone, the examiner lifts the thigh in one hand, with the other hand, bends the patient's knee slowly; this maneuver causes severe pain in the anterior part of the thigh and over the groin".
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July 2024
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Department of Surgery, Colorectal Division - Campinas (SP), Brazil.
The present manuscript aimed to review the historical development and most important contributions regarding Lynch Syndrome since its first description, more than a century ago. In 1895, a reputed pathologist from Michigan University, Dr. Aldred Scott Warthin, got intrigued by the family history of a local seamstress called Pauline Gross.
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Medical University of Warsaw, Faculty of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland.
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February 2024
College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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May 2021
Dublin City University Science Archive & Herbarium, Dublin City University, Ireland.
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