The ubiquitous umbilicus. What it can reveal about intra-abdominal disease.
With ready access to noninvasive methods of assessing abdominal processes, physicians may forget the first step of physical examination: observation. Physical signs, often neglected or discarded (and felt to be of importance only in trivia quizzes), can quickly direct patient examination in a cost-effective way. In this article, Dr Raymond discusses various periumbilical signs and the conditions linked to them.
Department of Digestive Diseases, University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson.
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