Omental torsion

Omental torsion is a rare cause of acute abdominal pain, and clinically mimics acute appendicitis. A 11-year-old boy presented with symptoms and signs suggestive of appendicitis. A computed tomography of abdomen revealed findings suggestive of omental torsion. Diagnostic laparoscopy confirmed the di...

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Autores principales: Jain, Paresh, Chhabra, Sheri, Parikh, Ketan, Vaidya, Amrish
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2788468/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20011502
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.44770
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author Jain, Paresh
Chhabra, Sheri
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description Omental torsion is a rare cause of acute abdominal pain, and clinically mimics acute appendicitis. A 11-year-old boy presented with symptoms and signs suggestive of appendicitis. A computed tomography of abdomen revealed findings suggestive of omental torsion. Diagnostic laparoscopy confirmed the diagnosis of torsion of a segment of the greater omentum.
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spelling pubmed-27884682009-12-13 Omental torsion Jain, Paresh Chhabra, Sheri Parikh, Ketan Vaidya, Amrish J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report Omental torsion is a rare cause of acute abdominal pain, and clinically mimics acute appendicitis. A 11-year-old boy presented with symptoms and signs suggestive of appendicitis. A computed tomography of abdomen revealed findings suggestive of omental torsion. Diagnostic laparoscopy confirmed the diagnosis of torsion of a segment of the greater omentum. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2788468/ /pubmed/20011502 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.44770 Text en © Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2788468/
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