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O. MUCK, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1930;12(5):585-590.

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I have made examinations on 17,000 healthy and diseased persons, and I now wish to give a summary on the reaction of the epinephrine probe test in traumas of the skull and brain.

In this short article it is not possible to report in detail the results with the epinephrine probe test. For all details I refer to the literature. A complete discussion of the test appears in the Monatsschrift für Ohrenheilkunde, 1930, anniversary number for Jansen.¹

The distinctly visible vasomotor reflex phenomenon of the "white streak" in the epinephrine probe test shows a tonus disturbance in the region of the sympathetic nerves that innervate the blood vessels of the brain. In my first article, in 1924, I stated that the probe test was of interest from the standpoint of physiology, and that it was perhaps of clinical value. I am still of this opinion. The technic of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
ESSEN, GERMANY

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, April 7, 1930.

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