Fovea Sign

Execution:

  1. The examiner palpates the soft spot between the ulnar styloid, the flexor carpi ulnaris tendon, the volar surface of the ulnar head and the pisiform

 

Positive Outcome: Reproducible pain at this spot, as compared with the contralateral side

 

Study Reliability Sn Sp LR+ LR-
Schmauss et al. (2016)

NA

73 44 0.53

0.66

Comment: Due to the poor specificity of this test, the diagnostic value of this test is rather weak. Interestingly, MRI imaging did not perform better and reached a comparably high level of sensitivity and poor specificity in this study