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To the Editor: In a Clinical Problem-Solving article by Fisk et al. (Sept. 2 issue),¹ a 34-year-old man with paraplegia was admitted because of fever and abdominal pain. The clinician-discussant noted, "It is of interest that palpation of the left lower quadrant elicits pain in the right upper quadrant, and I wonder whether this is a manifestation of impaired innervation of the abdominal wall resulting from the accident."¹ However, there is another explanation. It was first put forward by Hamilton Bailey, who called it Rovsing's sign, after Niels Thorkild Rovsing (1862–1927), a professor of surgery in Copenhagen. To test for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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