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Murphy's sign is a physical examination maneuver to differentiate upper right quadrant pain, especially cholecystitis. It involves placing the hand below the costal margin and asking the patient to breathe in, and noting any pain or catch in breath.
4 cze 2024 · Murphy's sign is a method to diagnose gallbladder inflammation or cholecystitis by pressing the upper-right abdomen during breathing. A positive sign means pain, while a negative sign means no pain. Learn more about the test, its variations, and its limitations.
8 lut 2018 · Murphy's sign is a physical examination finding for acute cholecystitis (inflammation of the gallbladder). It is positive if the patient has sudden pain or tenderness when the examiner's hand touches the right upper quadrant of the abdomen.
Murphy's sign is a physical examination technique to diagnose acute cholecystitis, which is inflammation of the gallbladder. It involves palpating the subcostal region during inspiration and looking for pain or resistance.
Murphy's sign is a clinical indicator of cholecystitis, a gallbladder inflammation, that causes inspiratory arrest during deep palpation of the right upper quadrant. Learn how to perform the test, its sensitivity and specificity, and other related terms and publications on ScienceDirect.
16 wrz 2023 · Murphy's sign is a clinical examination for acute cholecystitis, elicited by palpating the right subcostal area on inspiration. Learn about its history, description, validation and sonographic variation.
24 maj 2023 · Sonographic Murphy sign is defined as maximal abdominal tenderness from the pressure of the ultrasound probe over the visualized gallbladder 1,2. It is a sign of local inflammation around the gallbladder along with right upper quadrant pain, tenderness, and/or a mass 2.
