decorticate posturing

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Clinical significance

flexion of the elbows & wrists & arm supination suggest bilateral hemispheric injury above the midbrain
decorticate & unilateral posturing have a better prognosis than decerebrate posturing

More general terms

sign/symptom

Additional terms

decerebrate posturing

References

↑ Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 14th ed. Fauci et al (eds), McGraw-Hill Inc. NY, 1998, pg 128
↑ Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 11, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 1998

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