Rovsing's sign

Rovsing's sign
Rovsing's sign is pain in the RLQ (near the appendix) experienced when the LLQ is palpated.
Differential diagnosisappendicitis

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]

In acute appendicitis, palpation in the left iliac fossa may produce pain in the right iliac fossa.

  1. ^ Rovsing's sign.
  2. ^ Perman, ES (1904). "Om indikationerna för operation vid appendicit samt redogörelse for å Sabbatsbergs sjukhus opererade fall" [About the indications for surgery in appendicitis and an account of cases at Sabbatsberg Hospital]. Hygiea. 66 (2): 797–847.
  3. ^ Räf, L (8 August 1984). "The men behind the syndrome: Emil Perman and Nils Thorkild Rovsing. Scandinavian surgeons were the first to describe signs of appendicitis". Läkartidningen. 81 (32–33): 2829–2830. PMID 6381936.
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