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Dance's sign is an eponymous medical sign consisting of an investigation of the right lower quadrant of the abdomen for retraction, which can be an indication of intussusception, i.e. those with intussusception may have retraction of the right iliac fossa.
Eponym
It was originally described by the French pathologist Jean Baptiste Hippolyte Dance (1797–1832).[1]
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Eponymous medical signs for digestive system and abdomen Digestive system Goodsall's rule · Chilaiditi syndrome · intussusception: Dance's sign
appendicitis: Aaron's sign/McBurney's point · Rovsing's sign · Markle sign · Rosenstein's sign
Hampton's lineliver: Councilman body · Mallory body
biliary: Boas' sign · Courvoisier's law · Charcot's cholangitis triad/Reynolds' pentad · cholecystitis (Murphy's sign · Lépine's sign) · Nardi testAbdominopelvic OtherAbdominal · general spleen/LUQ: Ballance's sign · Traube's sign · Castell's sign
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