abdominal examination

On abdominal examination, these patients may have a positive Carnett's sign.

Some surgeons would describe an abdominal examination being from nipples to knees.

On every abdominal examination, evaluate the chest as if you were looking at a chest film.

The diagnosis can be made clinically by careful abdominal examination after a suggestive history has been obtained.

From clinical and economic viewpoints a careful abdominal examination should be the first assessment of a vomiting child.

The abdominal examination should include a minimum of three views - supine, prone and erect.

Abdominal examination and usually finds the uterus non-tender, soft and relaxed.

Castell's sign is a medical sign assessed to evaluate splenomegaly and typically part of an abdominal examination.

Abdominal examination includes evaluation for rebound tenderness, guarding, hypoactive or hyperactive bowel sounds, and stool collection.

Digital rectal exam - Abdominal examination is not complete without a digital rectal exam.

In medicine, Murphy's sign refers to a maneuver during a physical examination as part of the abdominal examination and a finding elicited in ultrasonography.

Depending on what the doctor suspects is wrong with you, the doctor may perform an abdominal examination, a pelvic examination, or a rectal examination.

Palpation is typically used for thoracic and abdominal examinations, but can also be used to diagnose edema and to measure the pulse.

For example, when performing an abdominal examination, a student is instructed to first palpate for the liver, and then to palpate for the spleen.

Fundus (height following parturition, and the feel of the fundus) (Per Abdominal Examination)

For this part of the abdominal examination, the patient can be asked to lift the head and shoulders from the examination table to tense the abdominal muscles.

In our cooperative study, in five general hospitals, renal ultrasonography was scheduled in 1526 consecutive patients who had been referred to the ultrasound service for any abdominal examination.

The Rome II criteria are used to diagnose IBS after a careful examination of the patient's medical history and physical abdominal examination which looks for any 'red flag' symptoms.

For instance, twice as many subjects in Wales were referred to a specialist or given an abdominal examination than in Humberside and Yorkshire, and half as many were prescribed tablets.

On the other hand, the effect of interference can potentially improve the efficacy of subsequent tests as compared to usage in the reference group, such as some abdominal examinations being easier when performed on underweight people.

In particular, they found that when the students were doing head, neck and abdominal examinations, the faculty evaluators were often mistaken; they said a procedure had been correctly performed when it had not, or vice versa.

Classically Murphy's sign is tested for during an abdominal examination; it is performed by asking the patient to breathe out and then gently placing the hand below the costal margin on the right side at the mid-clavicular line (the approximate location of the gallbladder).

Duodenography and colonography are performed like a standard abdominal examination using B-mode and color flow Doppler ultrasonography using a low frequency transducer - for example a 2.5 MHz - and a high frequency transducer, for example a 7.5 MHz probe.