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    Cullen's sign is blue-black bruising of the area around the umbilicus. It takes 24-48 hours to appear and predicts a severe attack of acute pancreatitis. Mortality rises from 8-10% to 40%.

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    Cullen's sign is blue-black bruising of the area around the umbilicus. It takes 24-48 hours to appear and predicts a severe attack of acute pancreatitis. Mortality rises from 8-10% to 40%.

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    Cullen's Sign

    Transféré par

    Dianne Sarmiento
    Cullen's sign is blue-black bruising of the area around the umbilicus. It takes 24-48 hours to appear and predicts a severe attack of acute pancreatitis. Mortality rises from 8-10% to 40%.

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    Cullen's sign is blue-black bruising of the area around the umbilicus.

    It is named for Thomas S. Cullen (1869-1953),[1] who was an obstetrician and first described the
    sign in ruptured ectopic pregnancy in 1916.[2]

    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 Grey Turner's sign[3] (bruising of the flank), which may then be
    indicative of Pancreatic necrosis with retroperitoneal or intraabdominal bleeding.

    Causes
    Causes include:

    • acute pancreatitis, where methaemalbumin formed from digested blood tracks around the
    abdomen from the inflamed pancreas
    • bleeding from blunt abdominal trauma
    • bleeding from ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm
    • bleeding from ruptured ectopic pregnancy

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