Blumberg's sign

Rebound tenderness
ICD-10-PCSR10.4
ICD-9-CM789.6

Blumberg's sign (also referred to as rebound tenderness or Shchetkin–Blumberg's sign) is a clinical sign in which there is pain upon removal of pressure rather than application of pressure to the abdomen. (The latter is referred to simply as abdominal tenderness.) It is indicative of peritonitis. It was named after German surgeon Jacob Moritz Blumberg.[1][2]

  1. ^ synd/2449 at Whonamedit?
  2. ^ J. M. Blumberg. Ein neues diagnostisches Symptom bei Appendicitis. Münchener medizinische Wochenschrift, 1907, 54: 1177-1178.
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