Hampton's line

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Hampton's line is a thin, radiolucent line seen across the neck of a gastric ulcer filled with barium sulphate during a barium meal. It is a sign of mucosal edema.

It is named after Aubrey Otis Hampton.

External links

  • Hampton's line at Who Named It?
  • Hampton's line image at learningradiology.com
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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
Abdominopelvic
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

M: DIG

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

noco/cong/tumr, sysi/epon

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

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