title: [A forgotten eponym: the Mackiewicz sign].
abstract: 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".
authors.affiliation: Rehabilitation Medicine, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Reuth Medical Center Tel Aviv, Israel. aohry@post.tau.ac.il
authors.forename: Avi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ohry
mesh_terms: D005267:Femoral Nerve / Q000293:injuries*; D020428:Femoral Neuropathy / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009462:Neurology / Q000266:history