[Endorectal "Shchetkin symptom" in acute surgical diseases and injuries of the abdominal organs].
The results of the digital rectal examination of 218 patients with "acute abdomen" syndrome are generalized here. 145 patients (66.5%) showed a greater pain-fullness at the detachment of the finger from the anterior wall of the rectum than at the pressing on the latter. 183 patients were operated upon; in 126 of them free liquid was found in the abdominal cavity. The endorectal "Shchetkin symptom" was positive in 79% of operated patients (in 93.7% of patients with abdominal free liquid found at the operation).
D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000175:diagnosis*; D000007:Abdominal Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis*; D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006555:Hernia, Ventral / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000175:diagnosis; D007422:Intestines / Q000098:blood supply; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010173:Palpation / Q000379:methods*; D010439:Peptic Ulcer Perforation / Q000175:diagnosis; D011247:Pregnancy; D011271:Pregnancy, Ectopic / Q000175:diagnosis; D012007:Rectum; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000175:diagnosis
Endorektal'nyĭ "simptom Shchetkina" pri ostrykh khirurgicheskikh zabolevaniiakh i travmakh organov briushnoi polosti.