Blumer's shelf
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In medicine, Blumer's shelf is a finding felt in rectal examination that indicates that a tumor has metastasized to the pouch of Douglas. It is usually a site of metastasis of cancers of the lung, pancreas, and stomach.[1]
Blumer's shelf or peritoneal cul-de-sac, is a shelf palpable on rectal or vaginal examination. It is due to metastatic tumor cells gravitating from an abdominal cancer and growing in the rectovesical or rectouterine pouch.
Synonym(s): rectal shelf
References[edit]
- Blumer, G. (1909). "Rectal shelf: neglected rectal sign of value in diagnosis of obscure malignant and inflammatory disease within the abdomen." Albany Medical Annals. 30:361.
- "Preoperative evaluation and oncologic principles of colon cancer surgery".Clin Colon Rectal Surg.2005;18
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