a Department of Radiology, Hôpital Saint Antoine, 184, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, 75012 Paris, France b Department of Anatomic Pathology, Hôpital Saint Antoine, 184, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, 75012 Paris, France c Department of Gastroenterology, Hôpital Saint Antoine, 184, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, 75012 Paris, France d Department of Visceral Surgery, Hôpital Saint Antoine, 184, r...

CASE HISTORY A 10-year-old boy was admitted with pain in the right iliac fossa for two days, which was made worse by movement and coughing. He was not nauseated and he did not vomit. He had not eaten for two days. Pulse rate was 70 oer min and temperature 37.4°C. There was marked tenderness with rebound in the right iliac fossa. On rectal examination he was very tender on the right side. White ...

Fig 1. Intra-operative view of malignant fibrous histiocytoma of greater omentum. A 55-YEAR-OLD CAUCASIAN WOMAN was admitted to our hospital complaining of abdominal pain. Her past medical history was not significant and she had no previous history of abdominal trauma. On physical examination a firm, not-fixed mass about 20 cm in diameter was found in the upper abdomen. Standard blood tests and...

Milky spots are opaque patches in the greater omentum. They were first described by von Recklinghausen (1863) in the omentum of rabbits. In man, milky spots are relatively uniform, highly vascularized accumulations of mononuclear cells. The objective of this study was to describe in human omental lymphoid tissue components with S-100. Tissue samples (greater omentum) were collected from 14 pati...