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Citation:
Neto A, Bell D, Jones J, et al. Rosenbach sign (eye). Reference article, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 05 Jun 2023) https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-91720
The Rosenbach sign of the eyes is a clinical sign of Graves disease. It consists of fine tremors of the eyelids when gently closed 1,2.
History and etymology
Ottomar Ernst Felix Rosenbach (1851-1907), a German physician born in Prussian County in Silesia, graduated from medicine in Breslau in 1874 3. He moved to the city of Berlin in 1896, where he continued to pursue his medical practice and scientific activities, publishing numerous papers, monographs, and books across a broad scope of medicine 3. Dr Rosenbach described his eponymous ocular sign in 1880.
See also
Rosenbach gave his name to two other clinical signs:
- 1. Saraci G, Treta A. Ocular changes and approaches of ophthalmopathy in basedow - graves- parry- flajani disease. (2011) Maedica. 6 (2): 146-52. Pubmed
- 2. Cruz AA, Ribeiro SF, Garcia DM, Akaishi PM, Pinto CT. Graves upper eyelid retraction. (2013) Survey of ophthalmology. 58 (1): 63-76. doi:10.1016/j.survophthal.2012.02.007 - Pubmed
- 3. Vaibhav Rastogi, Devina Singh, Halil Tekiner, Fan Ye, Nataliya Kirchenko, Joseph J. Mazza, Steven H. Yale. Abdominal Physical Signs and Medical Eponyms: Physical Examination of Palpation Part 1, 1876–1907. (2018) Clinical Medicine & Research. 16 (3-4): 83. doi:10.3121/cmr.2018.1423 - Pubmed
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