Claybrook sign

Claybrook sign is a clinical sign in which heart sounds and breath sounds can be heard transmitted through the abdominal wall on auscultation. It occurs in patients with rupture of an abdominal viscus.[1]

Claybrook sign
Differential diagnosisrupture of an abdominal viscus.


The sign is named after Edwin Claybrook. 


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 Metasyntactic variable, which is released under the 
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