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Skoda's sign, also known as Skoda's tympanitis, is a medical symptom named after the Czech physician Joseph Skoda (1805-1881).

It is characterized by a tympanic (drumming) sound that can be heard when the patient's chest is tapped in the lung area. This sound occurs due to the accumulation of air or gas in the pleural cavity, most often due to pneumothorax, pneumonia or emphysema.

When tapping over normal lung tissue, a dull sound is heard. And over an area filled with air, tapping produces a loud, resonant, high-pitched, tympanic sound.

Thus, the Skoda sign indicates the presence of free air or gas in the pleural cavity and can help in diagnosing conditions associated with this, such as pneumothorax. It is named after Josef Skoda for his contributions to the study of pulmonary percussion.

Skoda's symptom is a nonspecific process in the frontal and parietal lobes of the brain in various diseases and conditions of brain structures, especially in organic brain lesions, when it acts as an etiological factor and a secondary factor in some other syndrome.

Sh. symptom is a general definition for a group of neurological symptoms in which there is a simultaneous loss of sensitivity on the opposite side of the body or a corresponding decrease in muscle strength on the opposite side relative to the true location of the site of the process. The first mention of the Sh. symptom appeared in the works of the Czech physician Joseph Skoda in 1874, who described this phenomenon in detail using the example of paresis of the first toe [1]. Since then, the Sh. symptom, which describes the syndrome of bilateral loss of sensitivity and pyramidal disorders in the form of decreased muscle strength, has been diagnosed in a variety of diseases of the central nervous system, both traumatic and degenerative-dystrophic in nature. Moving from neurology to neurosurgery, Sh.symptom from the ancient