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  2. Rovsing's sign - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Appendicitis - Wikipedia

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    After surgery, the patient will be transferred to a postanesthesia care unit, so their vital signs can be closely monitored to detect anesthesia- or surgery-related complications. Pain medication may be administered if necessary. After patients are completely awake, they are moved to a hospital room to recover. Most individuals will be offered ...

  4. Markle's sign - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Ladd's bands - Wikipedia

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    The procedure involves counterclockwise detorsion of the bowel, surgical division of Ladd's bands (shown in image), widening of the small intestine's mesentery, performing an appendectomy, and reorientation of the small bowel on the right and the cecum and colon on the left (the appendectomy is performed so as not to be confused by atypical ...

  6. Psoas sign - Wikipedia

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    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 retroperitoneal).

  7. Blumberg's sign - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Heel tap sign - Wikipedia

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    Heel tap sign, also called heel-jar or jar tenderness, is a clinical sign to identify appendicitis.It is found in patients with localized peritonitis.With the patient supine the right heel is elevated by 10-20 degrees is hit firmly with palm of the examiner's hand.

  9. Abdominal pain - Wikipedia

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    Periumbilical pain, migrates to RLQ Clinical (history and physical exam) Abdominal CT Patient made NPO (nothing by mouth) IV fluids as needed General surgery consultation, possible appendectomy. Antibiotics Pain control Cholecystitis [24] Abdominal pain (RUQ, radiates epigastric), nausea, vomiting, fever, Murphy's sign