Bancroft's sign, also known as Moses' sign, is a
clinical sign
Signs and symptoms are the observed or detectable signs, and experienced symptoms of an illness, injury, or condition. A sign for example may be a higher or lower temperature than normal, raised or lowered blood pressure or an abnormality showin ...
found in patients with
deep vein thrombosis of the
lower leg involving the
posterior tibial veins. The sign is positive if pain is elicited when the
calf muscle is compressed forwards against the
tibia, but not when the calf muscle is compressed from side to side. Like other clinical signs for deep vein thrombosis, such as
Homans sign
In medicine, Homans' sign (sometimes spelled as Homans sign or called dorsiflexion sign) is considered by some physicians to be a sign of deep vein thrombosis (DVT). It was defined by John Homans
John Homans (1877–1954) was an American surgeon ...
and
Lowenberg's sign, this sign is neither sensitive nor specific for the presence of thrombosis.
References
Symptoms and signs: Vascular
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