FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to medicine, namely to thoracic surgery, gastroenterology and therapy, and can be used in physical diagnostics of hiatal hernias. In a patient reclined in a horizontal position and presenting complaints or not having pain at the time of examination, palpation is performed at a point located on the border of the inner and middle thirds on a horizontal line drawn from the apex of the xiphoid of the sternum to the edge of the left costal arch. If painfulness or hyperesthesia aggravated by pressure or pinching irritation of the skin in said area is detected, hiatus hernia is diagnosed.
EFFECT: method allows to improve efficiency of physical diagnostics of hiatal hernia due to the tension on vagal nerve branches and irritation of somatic nerves of the solar plexus.
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