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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 ...
diastolic blood pressure drop of >15mmHg on raising arm. McBurney's point. Charles McBurney. surgery. appendicitis. 2/3 of the way lateral on a line from umbilicus to anterior superior iliac spine (corresponds to junction of vermiform appendix and cecum) McConnell's sign. M.V. McConnell. cardiology.
Purpose. Differentiating upper right quadrant pain. In medicine, Murphy's sign (also known as Sweeney’s sign) is a maneuver during a physical examination as part of the abdominal examination. [1] It is useful for differentiating pain in the right upper quadrant. Typically, it is positive in cholecystitis, but negative in choledocholithiasis ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...
Blumberg's sign (also referred to as rebound tenderness or Shchetkin–Blumberg's sign) is a clinical sign in which there is pain upon removal of pressure rather than application of pressure to the abdomen. (The latter is referred to simply as abdominal tenderness.) It is indicative of peritonitis. It was named after German surgeon Jacob Moritz ...
Obturator sign. The obturator sign, also called Cope's obturator test, is an indicator of irritation to the obturator internus muscle. [1] The technique for detecting the obturator sign, called the obturator test, is carried out on each leg in succession. The patient lies on her/his back with the hip and knee both flexed at ninety degrees.