For palpation, use your fingertips or the area between the metacarpophalangeal and proximal interphalangeal joints. Practice and attention will determine which area is most sensitive for you. The ...

Have the patient turn slightly toward you to relax the neck muscles, and palpate gently between the sternocleidomastoid (SCM) and the trachea. Do not go above the thyroid cartilage to avoid ...

Palpation of the carotid pulse is of inestimable help in indicating which type of aortic-valve lesion predominates, and affords considerably more information than palpation at any other site. In pure ...

ARTERIAL reconstruction by thrombendarterectomy or grafting has been widely and successfully used for obliterative arteriosclerosis of the abdominal aorta and its branches. This has naturally ...