Your patient is a 48-year-old woman with complaints of severe cramping pain in the abdomen and right flank. Her past medical history includes a history of bladder calculi. You diagnose her with renal calculi at this time
Which of the following symptoms would you expect with her di-agnosis? (Select all that apply.) a. Abdominal pain on palpation
b. Blumberg sign
c. Cullen sign
d. CVA tenderness
e. Fever
f. Grey Turner sign
g. Hematuria
h. Nausea
A, D, E, G
Abdominal pain on palpation, CVA tenderness, fever, hematuria, and nausea are all signs and symptoms of renal calculi. The Cullen sign is ecchymosis around the umbilicus, the Blumberg sign is rebound tenderness for appendicitis, the Grey Turner sign is ecchymosis in the flanks, and the McBurney sign is rebound tenderness at McBurney's point.
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