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Ballance's sign
Associated persons:
Sir Charles Alfred Ballance
Description:
A trias of clinical signs of rupture of the spleen in abdominal trauma:
1. Localisation of trauma in the upper abdomen.
2. Demonstration of internal bleeding.
3. Spread, localized and fixated dullness in the left flank also when changing position.
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