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"Wheelchair Sign"

"Wheelchair Sign"

The so-called "wheelchair sign" describes patients with parkinsonism who take to using a wheelchair early in the course of their disease, usually because of falls. Early falls are a feature of progressive supranuclear palsy (Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome) rather than idiopathic Parkinson’s disease.

 

Cross References

Parkinsonism; "Rocket sign"