Background: Omentum necrosis is a rare cause of acute abdomen. Its main etiologies are torsion on its axis, hypercoagulability, and intra-abdominal infections. clinical diagnosis difficult since symptoms resemble other abdominal pathologies, so diagnostic confirmation when the pain present in right abdomen, which occurs most frequently, usually intraoperative Surgical treatment more effective t...

In this pictorial essay, we describe the computed tomographic and magnetic resonance imaging appearances of primary and metastasized gastrointestinal stromal tumors. These nonepithelial tumors arise from the muscularis propria in the wall of the gastrointestinal tract and are thought to originate from Cajal cells in the interstitium of intestinal pacemaker tissue. These tumors are found in the ...

A parastomal hernia is the abnormal protrusion of intra-abdominal tissue and organs through a defect in the abdominal wall around an ostomy. Commonly, they involve intra-abdominal fat, omentum or bowel. However, there are rare cases that involve other organs. We present the case of an 89-year-old gentleman with a gallbladder in his parastomal hernia. Due to his acute cholecystitis, the distende...

Macroscopic, description.?The specimen consisted of an irregular reddish-yellow firm tumour and a living round worm. The tumour measured '?0 X 6.5 X 3.0 cm. and was situated in the great omentum below the greater curvature oi Mie stomach. It was apparently covered with smooth dull-looking peritoneum and at one place was overlaid by a few dark-red blood ('lots. On serial section it was found to ...

the sac, which, on being opened, was found to contain about a foot of very much congested small intestines with a large piece of omentum. The stricture being divided, the hernia could not bp returned with gentle manipulation owing to the swollen condition of the contents of the Sac; the omentum was therefore ligatured with catgut in two pieces close to the neck, cut off, and the stump returned ...