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Emergency casebook
Rigler’s sign in a patient with massive pneumoperitoneum
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Rigler’s sign (double-wall sign) was first described by Leo George Rigler (American radiologist, 1896–1979) in 1941. This is a radiographical sign of massive pneumoperitoneum. In massive pneumoperitoneum, abdominal radiography shows that the bowel wall is outlined by air …
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