Medicine:Howship–Romberg sign

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Howship–Romberg sign
Differential diagnosisobturator hernia

The Howship–Romberg sign is inner thigh pain on internal rotation of the hip. It can be caused by an obturator hernia.[1][2][3] It is named for John Howship and Moritz Heinrich Romberg.[4][5][6]

References

  1. "Obturator hernia in an ageing society". Ann. Acad. Med. Singap. 36 (6): 413–5. June 2007. PMID 17597966. http://www.annals.edu.sg/pdf/36VolNo6Jun2007/V36N6p413.pdf. 
  2. "Photo Quiz - April 1, 1999 - American Academy of Family Physicians". http://www.aafp.org/afp/990401ap/photo.html. 
  3. "Howship-Romberg sign caused by an obturator hernia". Am. J. Surg. 187 (6): 775–6. June 2004. doi:10.1016/j.amjsurg.2003.10.020. PMID 15191874. 
  4. synd/1579 at Who Named It?
  5. J. Howship. Practical Remarks on the Discrimination and Appearance of Surgical Disease. London, Churchill, 1840.
  6. M. H. von Romberg. Pathologie und Therapie der Senisbilitäts- und Motilitätsneurosen. 1857. 3rd edition (unfinished) of Romberg’s Lehrbuch der Nervenkrankheiten des Menschen, page 89.