Queckenstedt's maneuver

The Queckenstedt characters or Queckenstedt test (English: Queckenstedt 's sign, also: Queckenstedt - Stookey test), named after the German neurologist Hans- Georg Heinrich Queckenstedt ( 1876-1918 ), is a simple test for evaluation of a passage of the obstacle spinal canal.

In healthy can be achieved, which can be detected during a lumbar puncture with a faster draining of cerebrospinal fluid or objectively measured by compression of the jugular veins cerebrospinal fluid pressure. Failure to do may to a constricting intraspinal process to be closed, for example, tumor, above the puncture site.

Original Description

• H. Queckenstedt: For the diagnosis of spinal cord compression. German Journal of Neurology, 1916, 55: 325-333.

Literature and sources

• Roche Medical Dictionary, 5th Edition; Elsevier GmbH Urban & Fischer Verlag; Munich / Jena 2003; ISBN 3-437-15072-3; Online version keyword: Queckenstedt characters
• Pschyrembel Clinical Dictionary - CD- ROM Version 259th edition; Walter de Gruyter Verlag; Berlin / New York 2002; ISBN 3-11-016523-6

Weblink

• Queckenstedt 's phenomenon in www.whonamedit.com

• Disease symptom in neurology