Fothergill's sign
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title:
Fothergill's sign
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Fothergill's sign is a medical sign. If a mass in the abdominal wall does not cross midline and does not change with flexion of the rectus muscles, this is a positive sign for a rectus sheath hematoma. It is named for English obstetrician William Edward Fothergill, who described features of rectus sheath hematomas in a 1926 article in the British Medical Journal entitled "Haematoma in the abdominal wall simulating pelvic new growth". In rectus sheath haematoma, the haematoma produces a mass that
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Medical condition
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fothergill%27s_sign
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2020-10-09T18:58:02Z
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