Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St. SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
J Clin Neurosci. 2013 Sep;20(9):1204-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jocn.2012.09.047. Epub 2013 Mar 19.
Woltman's sign of myxoedema, named after Henry Woltman in 1956, is the delayed relaxation phase of the muscle stretch reflex in patients with myxoedema. Although a change in these reflexes was mentioned as being clinically evident possibly as early as the 1870s, no formal description was published until 1924 when William Calvert Chaney objectively quantified the change. Woltman was involved in training Chaney, and it has been proposed that he guided Chaney's study of these reflexes. Despite the attachment of Woltman's name to the eponym, little evidence exists that directly links him to the first objective study of the muscle stretch reflex in myxoedema performed by Chaney.
沃爾特曼氏黏液性水肿征，以 1956 年的亨利·沃爾特曼（Henry Woltman）命名，是黏液性水肿患者肌肉拉伸反射的延迟松弛期。尽管早在 19 世纪 70 年代就提到了这些反射的变化，临床上可能已经很明显，但直到 1924 年，威廉·卡尔弗特·钱尼（William Calvert Chaney）才客观地量化了这种变化，并发表了正式描述。沃爾特曼（Woltman）参与了钱尼（Chaney）的培训，有人提出他指导了钱尼（Chaney）对这些反射的研究。尽管以沃爾特曼（Woltman）的名字命名，但几乎没有证据直接将他与钱尼（Chaney）首次对黏液性水肿患者的肌肉拉伸反射进行的客观研究联系起来。
