Um dos sintomas de meningite que podem ser demonstrados fisicamente é o sinal de Kernig. Uma rigidez grave do tendão da perna provoca incapacidade de esticar a perna quando o quadril está flexionado a 90 graus.
Data da revisão:
10/6/2012
Revisão feita por:
David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Jatin M. Vyas, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Assistant in Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc.