On PALPATION and AUSCULTATORY PERCUSSION

Auscultatory percussion of the head.

Eighty-nine consecutive patients with suspected intracranial masses were examined by auscultatory percussion in a blind study to assess the sensitivity of the procedure. Each patient underwent computed tomography (CT) of the brain as part of his medical care, and the results were compared with those of auscultatory percussion. Fifty-one of the patients had abnormal CT scans, of whom 44 (86%) ha...

Palpation and Percussion of the Abdomen

Appendicitis from a Physician's Point of View—Percussion and Palpation—Treatment of Tuberculosis

View. By J. F. Goodhart, m.d., f.r.c.p. The Practitioner.?Dr. Goodhart is under the impression that appendicitis is actually becoming more common, and that the increase is not solely due to improved diagnosis. In this he thinks it resembles diphtheria. As causes of increase in frequency he alludes to the theory that the appendix may be tonsillary in its affinities, and the inflammation of the a...

Auscultation and Percussion

Cranial percussion.

Percussion of the skull dates from a time when there were virtually no radiological methods for examining the skull and brain. Three apparently independent contributions appeared within the years 1893-1895. The sound elicited, tenderness, and auscultatory percussion have each been employed for diagnostic purposes, but have long been superseded.