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Bluish tinge to peri-umbilical skin
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ruptured ectopic pregnancy, hemorrhagic pancreatitis, ruptured aortic aneurysm
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  • Cullen sign is sometimes known in the foreign literature as the Hofstätter-Cullen-Hellendall sign [p. 98]. [103]
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    (1) A new sign in ruptured extrauterine pregnancy.
  Cullen TS.   Am J Obstet. 1918;78:457.
    (2) The second professor of gynecology and the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine.
  McGehee Harvey A.   Johns Hopkins Med J 1975 Nov;137(5):224-34.  Pubmed  Similars
Note that Medline has the author's name wrong in the citation above; the author's correct last name is Harvey.
    (3) Hamilton Bailey's Demonstrations of Physical Signs in Clinical Surgery. 17th ed.
  Clain A. Bristol, UK: John Wright, 1986: 256.   Amazon.com
    (4) Cutaneous manifestations of acute pancreatitis, with special reference to livedo reticularis.
  Sigmund WJ, Shelley WB.   N Engl J Med. 1954;251:851-853.
    (5) Surgical Diagnosis.
  Quist G. London: H.K. Lewis, 1977: 283.
    (6) The blue scrotum sign of Bryant: a diagnostic clue to ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm.
  Ratzan RM, Donaldson MC, et al.   J Emerg Med 1987 Jul-Aug;5(4):323-9.  Pubmed+Abstract  Similars
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    101.Periumbilical hemorrhage complicating percutaneous liver biopsy [letter].
  Tobi M, Garretto M, et al.   N Engl J Med 1983 Jun 23;308(25):1541-2.  Pubmed  Similars
    102.The ubiquitous umbilicus. What it can reveal about intra-abdominal disease.
  Raymond PL.   Postgrad Med 1990 Feb 1;87(2):175-6, 179-81.  Pubmed+Abstract  Similars
    103.Pigmentation of the skin.
  Jeghers H.   N Engl J Med. 1944;231:88-100,122-136,181-189.
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