Omental cake--cause?

Omental cake--cause?

Omental cake

A 48-year-old woman without systemic disease presented to the emergency department with a 2-month history of abdominal pain and distension. General malaise, anorexia, alternating constipation and diarrhea, and intractable hiccups were also noted. Physical examinations revealed a soft and distended abdomen without an obvious tender point. Routine laboratory tests were unremarkable except for mil...

Omental Cake: A Radiological Diagnostic Sign

A ten-year old male child, weighing 20 kg, was admitted through emergency with abdominal fullness and pain. There was a history of sustaining a trivial injury to abdomen two months back following which he developed mild abdominal pain. Intensity of pain increased gradually and became unbearable, along with abdominal distention. There was single episode of bleeding per rectum and off and on feve...

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 quadrant abdominal pain.

Case Report of Multimodality Imaging in Omental Cake: Plain Radiograph, Computed Tomography, and Ultrasonography

The imaging finding of omental cake has been demonstrated in other modalities, such as computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasonography. However, to the best of our knowledge, the image presentation of omental cake on a routine kidney-ureter-bladder film has not been reported before in the literature. We presented a unique case of a 61-year-old woman, with known advanced cec...