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Appendicitis is inflammation of the appendix. [ 2 ] Symptoms commonly include right lower abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and decreased appetite. [ 2 ] However, approximately 40% of people do not have these typical symptoms. [ 2 ] Severe complications of a ruptured appendix include widespread, painful inflammation of the inner lining of the ...
Rovsing's sign, named after the Danish surgeon Niels Thorkild Rovsing (1862–1927), [1] is a sign of appendicitis. If palpation of the left lower quadrant of a person's abdomen increases the pain felt in the right lower quadrant, the patient is said to have a positive Rovsing's sign and may have appendicitis. The phenomenon was first described ...
Cervical motion tenderness. Cervical motion tenderness or cervical excitation is a sign found on a gynecological pelvic examination suggestive of pelvic pathology. Classically, it is present in the setting of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) or ectopic pregnancy and is of some use to help differentiate PID from appendicitis. [1]
Alvarado score. The Alvarado score is a clinical scoring system used in the diagnosis of appendicitis. [1] Alvarado scoring has largely been superseded as a clinical prediction tool by the Appendicitis Inflammatory Response score. [2][3][4] Also known by the mnemonic MANTRELS, the scale has 6 clinical items (3 signs and 3 symptoms) and 2 ...
appendicitis, gastrointestinal hemorrhage. The psoas sign, also known as Cope's sign (or Cope's psoas test[1]) or Obraztsova's sign, [2] is a medical sign that indicates irritation to the iliopsoas group of hip flexors in the abdomen, and consequently indicates that the inflamed appendix is retrocaecal in orientation (as the iliopsoas muscle is ...
Differential diagnosis. acute appendicitis. Markle's sign, or jar tenderness, is a clinical sign in which pain in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen is elicited by the heel-drop test (dropping to the heels, from standing on the toes, with a jarring landing). It is found in patients with localised peritonitis due to acute appendicitis. [1]
In medicine, Carnett's sign is a finding on clinical examination in which (acute) abdominal pain remains unchanged or increases when the muscles of the abdominal wall are tensed. [ 1 ][ 2 ] For this part of the abdominal examination, the patient can be asked to lift the head and shoulders from the examination table to tense the abdominal muscles.
A pelvic examination is the physical examination of the external and internal female pelvic organs. [1] It is frequently used in gynecology for the evaluation of symptoms affecting the female reproductive and urinary tract, such as pain, bleeding, discharge, urinary incontinence, or trauma (e.g. sexual assault). [2][3] It can also be used to ...