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May 2022 Adult Abdominal imaging cases and interpretation with Raza Ahmad, Morgan Penzler, Ansley Ricker and Kyle Cunningham
Category General Surgery
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February 2022 Adult Abdominal imaging cases and interpretation with Raza Ahmad, Morgan Penzler, Ansley Ricker, Kaylee Smith and Kyle Cunningham
Appendicitis – the eponymous examination
Authors eponymously associated with abdominal signs, symptoms, investigation and management of appendicitis
Murphy’s sign
Murphy’s sign is elicited in patients with acute cholecystitis by asking the patient to take in and hold a deep breath while palpating the right subcostal area. John Benjamin Murphy (1903)
Rovsing sign
Rovsing sign (1907): In acute appendicitis, palpation of the left lower quadrant may elicit pain in the right lower quadrant. Niels Rovsing and Emil S Perman (1904)
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December 2021 Adult Abdominal imaging cases and interpretation with Raza Ahmad, Morgan Penzler, Ansley Ricker, Brent Matthews and Kyle Cunningham
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November 2021 Adult Abdominal imaging cases and interpretation with Raza Ahmad, Morgan Penzler, Ansley Ricker and Kyle Cunningham
Network Five: General Surgery
Network Five Emergency Medicine Journal Club Episode 10 - General surgery reviewing antibiotics with appendicitis, diverticulitis and appendectomy
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October 2021 Adult Abdominal imaging cases and interpretation with Raza Ahmad, Morgan Penzler, Ansley Ricker and Kyle Cunningham
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August 2021 Adult Abdominal imaging cases and interpretation with Raza Ahmad, Morgan Penzler, Ansley Ricker and Kyle Cunningham
Jacob Moritz Blumberg
Jacob Moritz Blumberg (1873 - 1955) was a Polish-German surgeon and gynaecologist. Blumberg sign (1907); Blumberg glove (1900)
Blumberg sign
Rebound tenderness test (Blumberg sign) initially described in 1907 by Jacob Moritz Blumberg (1873 – 1955), German surgeon and gynaecologist.