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Fox's sign
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Fox's sign is a clinical sign in which bruising is seen over the inguinal ligament. It occurs in patients with retroperitoneal bleeding, usually due to acute haemorrhagic pancreatitis.
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Named after London surgeon John Adrian Fox after he reported 2 fatal cases of non-traumatic ecchymosis in the upper outer aspect of the thigh as a diagnostic sign of retroperitoneal haemorrhage.[1]
Often incorrectly eponymously attributed to the American dermatologist George Henry Fox (1846–1937) despite JA Fox's paper being published in 1966.
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