Normally not palpable.
Projection: Over the left mid-axillary Line and posterior axillary line, level of the 9th, 10th, and 11th ribs, normally the tip is not palpable.

Estimate:
  • Site

  • Shape

  • Volume

  • Surface

  • Mobility

  • Consistency

  • Tenderness

  • Temperature

  • Megaly

    • (nodular, hard-soft, irregular, granular, pulsatile).

    Palpation Maneuvers
    1) Left hand pushes the costal margin so that the right hand can penetrate beneath it.
    2) Patient in the left lateral decubitus, with thighs flexed.

    See the Abdomen page.