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Simultaneous idiopathic segmental infarction of the great omentum and acute appendicitis: a rare association

Idiopathic segmental infarction of the greater omentum is an uncommon cause of acute abdomen. The etiology is still unclear and the symptoms mimic acute appendicitis. Its presentation simultaneously with acute appendicitis is still more infrequent. We present a case of a 47-year old woman without si...

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Autores principales: Battaglia, Luigi, Belli, Filiberto, Vannelli, Alberto, Bonfanti, Giuliano, Gallino, Gianfrancesco, Poiasina, Elia, Rampa, Mario, Vitellaro, Marco, Leo, Ermanno
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2605737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18959804
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-3-30
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author Battaglia, Luigi
Belli, Filiberto
Vannelli, Alberto
Bonfanti, Giuliano
Gallino, Gianfrancesco
Poiasina, Elia
Rampa, Mario
Vitellaro, Marco
Leo, Ermanno
author_facet Battaglia, Luigi
Belli, Filiberto
Vannelli, Alberto
Bonfanti, Giuliano
Gallino, Gianfrancesco
Poiasina, Elia
Rampa, Mario
Vitellaro, Marco
Leo, Ermanno
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description Idiopathic segmental infarction of the greater omentum is an uncommon cause of acute abdomen. The etiology is still unclear and the symptoms mimic acute appendicitis. Its presentation simultaneously with acute appendicitis is still more infrequent. We present a case of a 47-year old woman without significant previous medical history, admitted with an acute abdomen, in which the clinical diagnosis was acute appendicitis and in whom an infarcted segment of right side of the greater omentum was also found at laparotomy. As the etiology is unknown, we highlighted some of the possible theories, and emphasize the importance of omental infarction even in the presence of acute appendicitis as a coincident intraperitoneal pathological condition.
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spelling pubmed-26057372008-12-20 Simultaneous idiopathic segmental infarction of the great omentum and acute appendicitis: a rare association Battaglia, Luigi Belli, Filiberto Vannelli, Alberto Bonfanti, Giuliano Gallino, Gianfrancesco Poiasina, Elia Rampa, Mario Vitellaro, Marco Leo, Ermanno World J Emerg Surg Review Idiopathic segmental infarction of the greater omentum is an uncommon cause of acute abdomen. The etiology is still unclear and the symptoms mimic acute appendicitis. Its presentation simultaneously with acute appendicitis is still more infrequent. We present a case of a 47-year old woman without significant previous medical history, admitted with an acute abdomen, in which the clinical diagnosis was acute appendicitis and in whom an infarcted segment of right side of the greater omentum was also found at laparotomy. As the etiology is unknown, we highlighted some of the possible theories, and emphasize the importance of omental infarction even in the presence of acute appendicitis as a coincident intraperitoneal pathological condition. BioMed Central 2008-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC2605737/ /pubmed/18959804 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-3-30 Text en Copyright © 2008 Battaglia et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Battaglia, Luigi
Belli, Filiberto
Vannelli, Alberto
Bonfanti, Giuliano
Gallino, Gianfrancesco
Poiasina, Elia
Rampa, Mario
Vitellaro, Marco
Leo, Ermanno
Simultaneous idiopathic segmental infarction of the great omentum and acute appendicitis: a rare association
title Simultaneous idiopathic segmental infarction of the great omentum and acute appendicitis: a rare association
title_full Simultaneous idiopathic segmental infarction of the great omentum and acute appendicitis: a rare association
title_fullStr Simultaneous idiopathic segmental infarction of the great omentum and acute appendicitis: a rare association
title_full_unstemmed Simultaneous idiopathic segmental infarction of the great omentum and acute appendicitis: a rare association
title_short Simultaneous idiopathic segmental infarction of the great omentum and acute appendicitis: a rare association
title_sort simultaneous idiopathic segmental infarction of the great omentum and acute appendicitis: a rare association
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2605737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18959804
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-3-30
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