Rosenbach's sign

System: Hormone & Metabolic Signs · All hormone & metabolic signs

What it is — and how it is elicited

A fine tremor of the gently closed eyelids.

What a positive finding suggests

Associated with thyroid eye disease and hyperthyroidism (Graves' disease).

◈ Behind the name

Ottomar Ernst Felix Rosenbach (1851–1907), German physician.

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