Kanavel's sign is a clinical sign found in patients with infection of a flexor tendon sheath in the hand (pyogenic flexor tenosynovitis), a serious condition which can cause rapid loss of function of the affected finger.
[1] The sign consists of four components:[2] The sign is named after Allen B. Kanavel who first described them in 1912.
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