Hamman's sign
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Hamman's sign (rarely, Hammond's sign[1] or Hammond's crunch[2]) is a crunching, rasping sound, synchronous with the heartbeat,[3] heard over the precordium in spontaneous mediastinal emphysema. It is felt to result from the heart beating against air-filled tissues.
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It is named after Johns Hopkins clinician Louis Hamman, M.D.[4]
This sound is heard best over the left lateral position.[5] It has been described as a series of precordial crackles that correlate with the heart beat rather than respiration.