Grey-Turner's sign
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Grey-Turner's sign refers to bruising of the flanks.
This sign takes 24-48 hours to appear and predicts a severe attack of acute pancreatitis, with mortality rising from 8-10% to 40%.
It may be accompanied by Cullen's sign, which may then be indicative of Pancreatic necrosis with retroperitoneal or intraabdominal bleeding.
George Grey Turner was a British surgeon.
[edit] Causes
Causes include
- acute pancreatitis, whereby methaemalbumin formed from digested blood tracks subcutaneously around the abdomen from the inflamed pancreas
- blunt abdominal trauma
- ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm.
- Ruptured/ hemorrhagic ectopic pregnancy.
- spontaneous bleeding secondary to coagulopathy (congenital or acquired)
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