Your patient, a 62-year-old white male whose chief complaint is abdominal discomfort, is jaundiced and has an enlarged abdomen. The patient denies any tenderness after you perform fist percussion over his liver. This finding most likely indicates
a. a normal finding.
b. hepatitis.
c. insensitivity to pain associated with a grossly enlarged liver.
d. obstructed bile ducts.
A
A normal finding of fist percussion over the liver is no tenderness or pain. Liver tenderness can occur with hepatitis, a grossly enlarged liver, or cholecystitis.
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