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Palpation

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Palpation of the abdomen should always ensure the feeling of areas that might otherwise be forgotten:

  • feel the supraclavicular fossa for lymph nodes
  • feel the hernial orifices at rest and when the patient coughs: external inguinal ring, femoral canal and umbilicus
  • feel for femoral pulses
  • examine the external genitalia

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