Aaron's sign

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McBurney's point

Aaron's sign is a referred pain felt in the epigastrium upon continuous firm pressure over McBurney's point. It is indicative of appendicitis.

Aaron's sign is named for Charles Dettie Aaron, an American gastroenterologist.

References

Who Named It?

Eponymous medical signs for digestive system and abdomen

Digestive system

GI tract	Goodsall's rule · Chilaiditi syndrome · intussusception: Dance's sign appendicitis: Aaron's sign/McBurney's point · Rovsing's sign · Markle sign · Obturator sign · Psoas sign · Rosenstein's sign Hampton's line
Accessory	liver: Councilman body · Mallory body biliary: Boas' sign · Courvoisier's law · Charcot's cholangitis triad/Reynolds' pentad · cholecystitis (Murphy's sign) · Nardi test

Peritoneum	Blumberg sign · Rigler's sign
Hernia	Howship-Romberg sign · Hannington-Kiff sign
Other	Fothergill's sign · Carnett's sign

Abdominal · general

spleen/LUQ: Ballance's sign · Traube's sign · Castell's sign
hemorrhage: Cullen's sign · Grey Turner's sign

anat(t, g, p)/phys/devp/cell

noco/cong/tumr, sysi/epon

proc, drug(A2A/2B/3/4/5/6/7/14/16)

es:Signo de Aaron

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