Primary omental torsion in children: case report

Primary omental torsion is a rare cause of acute abdominal pain, we report a case of 10-year-old boy admitted with crampy abdominal pain, routine laboratory tests and plain abdominal radiography was normal, the patient underwent surgical exploration with the initial diagnosis of appendicitis, primar...

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Autores principales: Khalid, Khattala, Somuah, Tenorkorang Snr, Aziz, Elmadi, Mohamed, Rami, Youssef, Bouabdallah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3617620/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23565304
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2013.14.57.1321
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author Khalid, Khattala
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description Primary omental torsion is a rare cause of acute abdominal pain, we report a case of 10-year-old boy admitted with crampy abdominal pain, routine laboratory tests and plain abdominal radiography was normal, the patient underwent surgical exploration with the initial diagnosis of appendicitis, primary omental torsion was confirmed and the omentum was untwisted, with good postoperative evolution.
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spelling pubmed-36176202013-04-05 Primary omental torsion in children: case report Khalid, Khattala Somuah, Tenorkorang Snr Aziz, Elmadi Mohamed, Rami Youssef, Bouabdallah Pan Afr Med J Case Report Primary omental torsion is a rare cause of acute abdominal pain, we report a case of 10-year-old boy admitted with crampy abdominal pain, routine laboratory tests and plain abdominal radiography was normal, the patient underwent surgical exploration with the initial diagnosis of appendicitis, primary omental torsion was confirmed and the omentum was untwisted, with good postoperative evolution. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2013-02-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3617620/ /pubmed/23565304 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2013.14.57.1321 Text en © Khattala Khalid et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. 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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