Make sure your hands are warm. Typically, you would use indirect percussion on the abdominal examination. This involves placing your nondominant hand on the skin and tapping the middle finger of this ...

An 87-year-old man presented with a 3-day history of progressive, diffuse abdominal pain. He denied nausea, vomiting, fever or chills. He had no history of rectal bleeding, diarrhea or constipation, ...