finger-escape sign

finger-escape sign
the hand is held with the fingers extended and adducted; in cervical myelopathy the fourth and fifth (and sometimes the middle) fingers flex and abduct. See also myelopathy hand, under hand.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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