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Frank's sign: a potential predictor of cardiovascular disease [PDF]
Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2015 No abstract available. (Published: 1 April 2015) Citation: Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives 2015, 5 : 26885 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v5 ...
Shoaib Bilal Fareedy +3 more
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The Histological Basis of Frank's Sign. [PDF]
Head Neck Pathol, 2021 Frank's sign is a diagonal crease of the ear lobe, supposedly related to cardiac pathology, and has strongly been associated with coronary artery atherosclerosis. A total of 45 consecutive adult patients referred for autopsy in a one-and-a-half-year period were extensively studied.
Stoyanov GS +4 more
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Frank's Sign in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Sideburn Adiposity: A Case Report and Illustrated Hypothesis. [PDF]
Cureus, 2021 The diagnosis of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) remains uniquely dependent on physical examination signs. Diagonal earlobe crease (DELC) also referred to as "Frank's sign, has been associated with several cardiometabolic disorders with further ...
Abrahim M.
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Frank's sign in recurrent triple-vessel disease. [PDF]
BMJ Case Rep, 2020 A 78-year-old man with hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidaemia presented with acute chest pain, following a history of myocardial infarction 11 years ago. Percutaneous coronary intervention was performed to implant bare-metal stents in the stenotic right coronary artery, left anterior ...
Ono R, Iwahana T, Kobayashi Y.
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'Frank's sign: dermatological marker for coronary artery disease'. [PDF]
Oxf Med Case Reports, 2021 ABSTRACT Frank’ sign or diagonal earlobe crease (DELC) is a diagonal earlobe crease that extends backwards from the tragus at an angle of 45 degree across the lobule to the ear edge of the auricle. It has been described as a dermatological marker for coronary artery disease.
Elawad OAMA, Albashir AAD.
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The prognostic value of the Frank sign. [PDF]
Forensic Sci Med Pathol, 2022 AbstractFrank’s sign (named after American pulmonologist Sanders T. Frank) refers to a diagonal skin fold between the tragus and outer edge of the earlobe. Gradation is based on the bilateral presence and/or degree of the earlobe fold. The presence of this sign, referred to as the diagonal earlobe crease (DELC), has been associated with coronary artery
Prangenberg J +3 more
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Frank's Sign: A Clinical Predictor of Ischaemic Strokes. [PDF]
CureusFrank's sign is a diagonal crease on the earlobe and has been linked to cardiovascular disease. This prospective observational study aimed to assess the association between Frank's sign and ischaemic strokes. Conducted over three months in a UK district general hospital, the study analysed data from 137 consecutive patients admitted to stroke and ...
Renju A, Sivagnanaratnam A.
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Frank's sign: Cutaneous marker of cardiovascular disease
Journal of Clinical and Preventive Cardiology, 2018 Rakesh Agarwal
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Frank's sign: a coronary artery disease predictor. [PDF]
BMJ Case Rep, 2014 A 69-year-old man with follicular lymphoma was admitted for initiation of chemotherapy. On physical examination, the patient was found to have anterior chest median sternotomy scar, also with bilateral diagonal earlobe creases runs backward at 45° angle as shown in (figures 1 and 2).
Xu R, Pham J.
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QJM, 2015 An 84-year-old man with hypertension, diabetes and hypercholesterolemia but without documented coronary artery disease presented to the emergency department with a 2-week of dizziness and malaise. Physical examination revealed irregular heart beat but without neurological abnormalities.
C-H, Lo, W-S, Lin
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