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1. Aaron sign
Answer: Pain or distress occurs in the area of the patient's heart or stomach on palpation of McBurney's point
Appendicitis
2. Ballance sign
Answer: Fixed dullness to percussion in left flank, and dullness in right flank that disappears on change of
position
Peritonitis
3. Blumberg sign
Answer: rebound tenderness
peritonitis, appendicitis
4. Cullen sign
Answer: bruising around umbilicus
, pancreatitis or ectopic pregnancy
5. Dance sign
Answer: absence of bowel sounds in RLQ
intussusception
6. Grey Turner sign
Answer: Ecchymosis of flanks
Hemoperitoneum; pancreatitis
7. Kehr sign
Answer: abdominal pain radiating to the left shoulder
spleen rupture, ectopic pregnancy, renal calculi
8. Markle sign (heel jar)
Answer: abdominal pain when running, jumping, RLQ pain when pt drops from tip toes to heel with jarring
landing
appendicitis, peritonitis
9. McBurney's sign
Answer: rebound tenderness associated with appendicitis (RLQ)
10. Murphy's sign
Answer: Abrupt cessation of inspiration with palpation of gall bladder cholecystitis
11. Romberg test