Möbius sign
System: Hormone & Metabolic Signs · All hormone & metabolic signs
What it is — and how it is elicited
When a target is brought close to the nose, one or both eyes fail to keep turning inward (weakness of convergence).
What a positive finding suggests
Associated with thyroid eye disease (Graves' ophthalmopathy).
◈ Behind the name
Paul Julius Möbius (1853–1907), German neurologist and psychiatrist.
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