The blue scrotum sign of Bryant is an ecchymosis of the scrotum.[1] It is a medical sign associated with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) that is leaking relatively slowly.[1] Rupture of the aneurysm causes blood to accumulate in the retroperitoneal space and extravasate into the scrotal tissue via the inguinal canal, and is typically seen 3 to 6 days after leakage of the aneurysm[1]

It was first described by John Henry Bryant in a series of autopsies conducted on people who died of AAA.[2][3]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Epperla, Narendranath; Mazza, Joseph J.; Yale, Steven H. (April 2015). "A Review of Clinical Signs Related to Ecchymosis". WMJ: official publication of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin. 114 (2): 61–65. ISSN 1098-1861. PMID 26756058. Archived from the original on 2021-10-02. Retrieved 2022-11-09.
  2. ↑ White, Fred Ashley (2009). Physical Signs in Medicine and Surgery: An Atlas of Rare, Lost and Forgotten Physical Signs : Includes a Collection of Extraordinary Papers in Medicine, Surgery and the Scientific Method. Museum Press Books. ISBN 978-1-4415-0829-4. Archived from the original on 2022-11-11. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
  3. ↑ Ratzan, R. M.; Donaldson, M. C.; Foster, J. H.; Walzak, M. P. (July 1987). "The blue scrotum sign of Bryant: a diagnostic clue to ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm". The Journal of Emergency Medicine. 5 (4): 323–329. doi:10.1016/0736-4679(87)90262-9. ISSN 0736-4679. PMID 3624839. Archived from the original on 2022-11-09. Retrieved 2022-10-20.