Abdominal Imaging Cases 017
August 2021 Adult Abdominal imaging cases and interpretation with Raza Ahmad, Morgan Penzler, Ansley Ricker and Kyle Cunningham
Category General Surgery
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.
Ultrasound Case 109
A 6 year old boy presents with lower abdominal pain and vomiting. He has had intermittent pain for a week thought to be due to mesenteric adenitis.
George B. Markle IV
George Bushar Markle IV (1921 - 1999) was an American surgeon. Markle Sign (1973) or Heel Drop Jarring Test in patients with intraperitoneal inflammation
J. Englebert Dunphy
John Englebert Dunphy (1908-1981). Dunphy sign [*cough test for appendicitis] increased pain, localised to the right lower quadrant.
Emil Perman
Emil Samuel Perman (1856 - 1946) was a Swedish general surgeon. Eponymsously associated with the Perman-Rovsing sign
Niels Thorkild Rovsing
Niels Thorkild Rovsing (1862-1927) was a Danish surgeon Eponym linked with Rovsing sign (1907) in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis
Nikolay Volkovich
Nikolay Markianovich Volkovich (Николай Маркианович Волкович) (1858-1928). Eponymously linked with Volkovich-kocher sign
Dmitry Arapov
Dmitry Alekseyevich Arapov (Дмитрий Алексеевич Арапов) (1897 – 1984) was a Russian military surgeon. Arapov contracture in appendicitis
Markle Sign
George Bushar Markle IV (1921 – 1999) was an American surgeon. Eponymously linked to the Markle Sign in appendicitis (1985)
Vladimir Mikhailovich Voskresensky
Vladimir Mikhailovich Voskresensky Владимир Михайлович Воскресенский (1902 - 1951) was a Russian general surgeon.