Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1. inspect the patient on standing position and exposed below the waist
- to note the full extent of a hernia
- to inspect direct hernias and varicoceles
PALPATION
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- direct- reduce itself , indirect – manually reduced
- if difficult to reduce , ask the patient to flex the thigh , abducted and rotated internally
to relax the pillar superficial inguinal ring and the oblique .
- in obstructed hernia – cannot be reduced even in relax and under anaesthesia
Deep Ring Occlusion Test – occlude the deep inguinal ring and ask the patient to cough
- indirect will not bulged out (+ve) when finger removed it come out
- direct – bulged medial to occluding finger on coughing (-ve)
Invagination Test
AUSCULTATION
- Peristalsis – enterocele
- absent sound – omentocele
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