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Volkovich symptom

Volkovich symptom (N. M. Volkovich, Soviet surgeon, 1858-1928)

Allocate Volkovich a symptom:

  1. (Synonym: a symptom of "frog paws") – stay of the patient in forced situation on spin with the bent in hip and knee joints and divorced legs at a change of front department of a basin;
  2. The atony or atrophy of muscles of the right half of a stomach noted at an appendicism.
 
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