A nurse is mentoring a nursing student on a medical-surgical unit. The nursing student has performed an abdominal assessment on a client with pancreatitis and reports to the nurse that the client has what she thinks is Cullen's sign

This is described as: a. ecchymosis on the client's flank
b. ecchymosis on client's groin
c. circular ecchymosis over the pancreas
d. periumbilical ecchymosis


D
Cullen's sign is described as periumbilical ecchymosis.

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