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Virkhova sign

Virkhova a sign (R. Virchow, the German pathologist, 1821-1902) – presence of one or several painless, increased lymph nodes which are palpated between the outer edge грудино - a clavicular and mastoidal muscle and the upper bound of the left clavicle (a virkhovsky metastasis); it is in certain cases noted at a carcinoma of the stomach.

 
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