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ArticleBMJ case reports2014

Two women with recurrent falls: La maladie des genoux bleus alias cryptogenic drop attacks.

Raphael Butsch, Markus Schneemann

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Raphael ButschDepartment of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Markus SchneemannDepartment of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
University Hospital of Zurich · CH

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Two women, aged 79 and 56, reported recurrent falls for several years without any prodromes or residues, without any known features of either syncope or seizure, without any detectable causative condition and seemingly without revealing any pathognomonic signs in the clinical examination. In both cases, the falls occurred only while walking and without loss of consciousness. These falls resulted always in dropping forward with pouncing on the knees. There had never been an injury other than contusions of the knees. Indeed, inspection of the knees of one of these patients showed signs of contusion with erosions and scars of different ages, whereas on the whole body no other wounds or dermatological lesions could be detected. What could that be? Cryptogenic drop attacks--or in French and more descriptively: La maladie des genoux bleues!

Indexed as

Accidental FallsConsciousnessKneeSyncopeWalkingAgedContusionsFemaleHumansKnee InjuriesMiddle AgedRecurrence

Identifiers

PMID24973344
PMCPMC4078483
OpenAlexW2050964029

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