Percussion, auscultation and transillumination
The characteristics of hernias depend on their contents:
- bowel is hyper-resonant and has bowel sounds unless it is strangulated
- omentum and fat is dull and does not have bowel sounds
- a fluid-filled sac transilluminates e.g. hydrocoele
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