Blumberg sign

As Blumberg sign is called a clinical signs of local peritonitis ( peritonitis), which is ranked among the appendicitis characters. After a slow manual impressions of the abdominal wall in the left lower abdomen is the sudden release of pressure, a sharp pain in the affected region of the ignition, with the seat of the appendix, triggered in the right lower abdomen. In cases of severe peritonitis, the pain is right perceptible even when the pressure drops suddenly in the left lower abdomen, the phenomenon is referred to as a crossed or contralateral rebound tenderness.

The triggering of the Blumberg sign is not specific for appendicitis, just as the non - inducibility such does not exclude. The sign is therefore to use only in context with other clinical findings.

The Blumberg sign is after Jacob Moritz Blumberg (1873-1955), a German - Jewish surgeon named.

Original Description

• M. Blumberg: About a diagnostic symptom of appendicitis. Munich medical Wochenschrift, 1907, 24