Bisgaard sign

The Bisgaard character is a clinical sign that at a deep vein thrombosis can occur. It was named after the Danish doctor Holger Bisgaard .

The Bisgaard sign is positive if pain on pressure occurs in the region between the Achilles tendon , heel bone and ankle (calcaneo-malleolar region) with the leg extended . The sign is also referred to as backdrop pressure pain or backdrop pain and the region is also referred to as Bisgaard backdrop .

Clinical signs in deep vein thrombosis, to which the Bisgaard sign also belongs, have a relatively high specificity but only a low sensitivity .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jens-Hermann Grotewohl : Applied Phlebology. Instruction and manual for practice and clinic; with 31 tables Schattauer Verlag , 2002, ISBN 978-3794521623 , p. 228
2. ↑ Thomas Cissarek : Vascular medicine. Therapy and Practice ABW Wissenschaftsverlag , 2009, ISBN 978-3936072891 , p. 290
3. ^ S2 guideline for venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism: Diagnostics and therapy of the German Society for Angiology - Society for Vascular Medicine eV (DGA). In: AWMF online (as of June 1st, 2010)

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