Category General Surgery
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Blue Scrotum Sign of Bryant

Bryant’s sign: Scrotal ecchymosis associated with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) first described in 1903 by John Henry Bryant (1867-1906)

Thomas sign AM Thomas Ogilvie 1955

Thomas sign

Thomas's sign: Silver, aluminium or metallic coloured stools. Caused by the combination of cholestatic (acholic) pale stools secondary to CBD obstruction and the black-tar colour malaena.

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Berkeley Moynihan

Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, Lord Moynihan of Leeds (1865-1936) was an English General surgeon. Eponymously associated with the Moynihan sign (1905), an adaptation of Murphy's sign, a method used to differentiate pain in the right upper quadrant.