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During your abdominal exam on the previous patient, you flex the patient's right hip to 90 degrees and take his right ankle in your right hand and with your left hand externally then internally rotate his hip by moving the knee back and forth. The patient denies any abdominal pain with this movement. What physical exam sign did you just perform and what disease is it ruling out

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The physical exam sign that is being performed on the patient is Obturator sign and it rules out acute appendicitis.

What is Obturator sign?

Obturator sign is a type of physical examination sign that is used to assess inflamed pelvic appendix that is in contact with the obturator internus muscle.

This procedure is carried out by:

  • Flexing the patient's right hip to 90 degrees,

  • take his right ankle in your right hand and with your left hand externally,

  • then internally rotate his hip by moving the knee back and forth.

The absence of abdominal pain is indicative of absence of acute appendicitis.

Learn more about appendicitis here:

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