While completing an admission assessment for a client with fatigue, weakness, and unexplained weight loss, the nurse notes scleral jaundice. Which finding during percussion of the abdomen should the nurse document indicating hepatomegaly?

A. Tympany indicates the presence of gas within the intestines. This would not be expected over the liver area if there is hepatomegaly. B. This is not an expected finding in hepatomegaly. Tympany is associated with air-filled structures, which would not be present over an enlarged liver. C. A hollow sound is also indicative of air-filled organs like the intestines. It is not a sign of hepatomegaly, which would be characterized by dullness on percussion. D. Dullness upon percussion outside the costal margins suggests an enlarged liver (hepatomegaly). This is due to the liver becoming larger and filling the space that normally contains air-filled organs like the intestines.