Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma is an uncommon malignant soft tissue tumour rarely found in the female genital tract and carries a very poor prognosis especially in adults. A 44 year old premenopausal woman was evaluated for a lower abdominal mass, intermittent unprovoked vaginal bleeding and weight loss. Examination showed a huge abdomino-pelvic mass, and an irregular cauliflower mass protruding fro...

Introduction: Hernias anterior to the sternum have rarely been reported and usually occur in the context of abdominal trauma. The literature reports hernia as a complication of omental flap reconstruction, but as yet there is little information on the laparoscopic repair of large subxiphoid hernia resulting from omental flap reconstruction. Case: A 52-year-old woman presented 2 years after surg...

Prostate cancer most commonly metastasizes to bone, lung and liver. Omental metastasis of prostate cancer is extremely rare, with only a few cases reported in the literature, many of which have associated ascites. We present a case of non-ascitic omental metastasis of prostate cancer without any bone metastases. Furthermore, this patient has had two negative measurements of circulating tumor ce...

Omental torsion is a rare cause of acute abdomen. Most often it presents with sign and symptoms of acute appendicitis. It is seldom considered in the differential diagnosis preoperatively based on clinical findings and the diagnosis is only established during surgery. We present a case of omental torsion in a middle aged male patient who presented with findings suggestive of appendicular perfor...

Isolated omental panniculitis is a rare entity mostly seen in adults. It presents with the inflammation of the fatty tissue of the omentum. The symptoms may vary from local (e.g. abdominal tenderness or palpable mass) to systemic manifestations including abdominal pain, back pain, fever, weight loss and bowel disturbances. We presented this case as a first awareness of omental panniculitis in a...

The lesser sac is located anterior to the pancreas and immediately posterior to the body of the stomach (1-3). Caudate lobe liver and splenic artery are also the parts of the lesser sac (4). A fluid collection in the lesser sac in not a typical manifestation of benign ascites, and its presence should direct a search for a pathologic condition in neighboring organs (5). We present a 38year-old m...

Amaç: Bu çalışmada Ivor Lewis (transtorasik) tipi özofajektomide anastomoz kaçağını önlemede pediküllü omental flep kullanımının etkinliği araştırıldı. Ça­lış­ma­ pla­nı:­ Ocak 2000 ve Aralık 2007 tarihleri arasında Atatürk Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Hastanesi Göğüs Cerrahisi Kliniği’nde özofagus kanseri nedeniyle Ivor Lewis tipi özofajektomi ve özofagogastrik anastomoz uygulanan 132 hastanın (...

In this study, the role of local injection of butyric acid (BA) with autogenous omental graft was evaluated in healing of experimental Achilles tendon injury in rabbits. Nine adult male New Zealand rabbits were anesthetized and a partial thickness tenotomy was created on both hindlimbs. In treated group, omental graft was secured in place using BA soaked polygalactin 910 suture. In control grou...

Obesity is becoming an important public health problem given its strong association with insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes. Previously considered an inert depot, fat is now regarded as a highly metabolically active tissue in many pathophysiological processes. In humans, the accumulation of omental rather than subcutaneous adipose tissue appears to be tightly linked to cardiovascular diseas...