Omental Infarction: An Unusual Cause of Left-Sided Abdominal Pain

Left-sided omental infarction (OI) is rare in both the adult and pediatric patients. To our knowledge, only 2 pediatric cases of a left-sided OI have been reported in the literature. We report a case of an obese 13-year-old male who presented with a 6-day history of intermittent, colicky, left upper...

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Autores principales: Walia, Ritu, Verma, Rishi, Copeland, Neil, Goubeaux, Derrick, Pabby, Sahil, Khan, Raheel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: American College of Gastroenterology 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4435328/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26157883
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.2014.60
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author Walia, Ritu
Verma, Rishi
Copeland, Neil
Goubeaux, Derrick
Pabby, Sahil
Khan, Raheel
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description Left-sided omental infarction (OI) is rare in both the adult and pediatric patients. To our knowledge, only 2 pediatric cases of a left-sided OI have been reported in the literature. We report a case of an obese 13-year-old male who presented with a 6-day history of intermittent, colicky, left upper quadrant abdominal pain.
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spelling pubmed-44353282015-07-08 Omental Infarction: An Unusual Cause of Left-Sided Abdominal Pain Walia, Ritu Verma, Rishi Copeland, Neil Goubeaux, Derrick Pabby, Sahil Khan, Raheel ACG Case Rep J Case Report Left-sided omental infarction (OI) is rare in both the adult and pediatric patients. To our knowledge, only 2 pediatric cases of a left-sided OI have been reported in the literature. We report a case of an obese 13-year-old male who presented with a 6-day history of intermittent, colicky, left upper quadrant abdominal pain. American College of Gastroenterology 2014-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4435328/ /pubmed/26157883 http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.2014.60 Text en Copyright © Walia et al. This is an open-access article. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Walia, Ritu
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Goubeaux, Derrick
Pabby, Sahil
Khan, Raheel
Omental Infarction: An Unusual Cause of Left-Sided Abdominal Pain
title Omental Infarction: An Unusual Cause of Left-Sided Abdominal Pain
title_full Omental Infarction: An Unusual Cause of Left-Sided Abdominal Pain
title_fullStr Omental Infarction: An Unusual Cause of Left-Sided Abdominal Pain
title_full_unstemmed Omental Infarction: An Unusual Cause of Left-Sided Abdominal Pain
title_short Omental Infarction: An Unusual Cause of Left-Sided Abdominal Pain
title_sort omental infarction: an unusual cause of left-sided abdominal pain
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4435328/
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