Your patient is lying supine and you ask him to raise his leg while you place resistance against the thigh. The examiner is testing the patient for:
A. Psoas sign
B. Obturator sign
C. Rovsing's sign
D. Murphys' sign
ANS: A
To examine the patient for appendicitis, the clinician can test the patient for psoas sign. This is done in the following manner: Place a hand on the patient's thigh just above the knee and ask the patient to raise the thigh against your hand. This contracts the psoas muscle and produces pain in patients with an inflamed appendix.
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