The Hoffmann-Tinel sign. 1915
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Published on: September 8, 2015
P Hoffmann1, D Buck-Gramcko, J D Lubahn
1Berufsgenossenschaftliches Unfallkrankenhaus, Hamburg, Germany.
Journal of Hand Surgery (Edinburgh, Scotland)
|December 1, 1993
Abstract:
The aim of this article is to show that the well-known Tinel sign is really a Hoffmann-Tinel sign. The translation of the two papers of Hoffmann, published in the same year that Tinel wrote his article (1915), is completed by a short biography of Paul Hoffmann.

