Rovsing's sign
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Rovsing's sign, named after the Danish surgeon Niels Thorkild Rovsing (1862–1927),[1] is a sign of appendicitis. If palpation of the left lower quadrant of a person's abdomen increases the pain felt in the right lower quadrant, the patient is said to have a positive Rovsing's sign and may have appendicitis. The phenomenon was first described by Swedish surgeon Emil Samuel Perman (1856–1945) writing in the journal Hygiea in 1904.[2][3]
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Rovsing's sign is pain in the RLQ (near the appendix) experienced when the LLQ is palpated. | |
Differential diagnosis | appendicitis |
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In acute appendicitis, palpation in the left iliac fossa may produce pain in the right iliac fossa.