Diagnostic Significance of Abdominal Murmurs

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ABDOMINAL murmurs have been reported as occurring in renal-artery stenosis associated with hypertension1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 and also over enlarged spleens,10 with tortuous splenic arteries,11 tumors of the liver,12 , 13 carcinoma of the pancreas14 , 15 and abdominal arteriovenous aneurysms.16 A characteristic venous hum frequently accompanies cirrhosis of the liver.13 It is always assumed that abdominal murmurs are absent under normal conditions, and their presence is taken as a sign of abnormality. However, this assumption has not been carefully tested. There are no systematic data on the frequency of abdominal murmurs in the normal population.It is also not known whether the murmurs indeed originate in . . .

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