The Chvostek sign: A clinical study

Elmer Hoffman

doi:10.1016/0002-9610(58)90868-7

Scientific paper| Volume 96, ISSUE 1, P33-37, July 1958

The Chvostek sign

A clinical study

Elmer Hoffman, M.D.
Elmer Hoffman
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1 From the Departments of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Hospital, and the Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland.

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Abstract

The occurrence of the positive Chvostek sign is analyzed in terms of age, sex, race, laterality, persistence of sign, familial tendency and blood chemistry values.

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