Howship-Romberg sign
Howship-Romberg sign: pain and paraesthesia along the distribution of the obturator nerve (medial thigh to knee); a clinical indicator of obturator nerve compression, commonly due to an obturator hernia
Howship-Romberg sign: pain and paraesthesia along the distribution of the obturator nerve (medial thigh to knee); a clinical indicator of obturator nerve compression, commonly due to an obturator hernia
An 85-year-old woman presented with central abdominal pain and vomiting. Clinical exam reveals a large tender midline upper abdominal mass, there was suspicion for an epigastric hernia.
Brain herniation is the displacement of part of the brain through an opening or across a separating structure into a region that it does not normally occupy.