Reference or source Patient age at presentation, y Country or region of origin Symptoms Duration of illness prior to diagnosis Diagnostic tests and findings Pregnancy outcome Present case 29 Haiti Vaginal bleeding, abdominal pain, fever 3 wk MRI of omental mass, granulomata and AFB on omental pathology, positive nucleic acid amplification and omental cultures Birth at 26 weeks gestation; male i...

RATIONALE Luminal subtype breast cancer, accounting for 70 to 80% of all breast cancers, has been reported to be associated with good prognosis. However, for the patients with large mass or worse mass position, omental flap transplantation may provide a new option for breast reconstruction. PATIENT CONCERNS Ten patients (6 luminal B1, 2 luminal B2, 2 luminal A), were enrolled into the study, ...

Omental cysts occur rarely. Patients with omental cysts usually present with abdominal distention and a painless abdominal mass. In children it may present as an acute abdomen due to intestinal obstruction. The most common physical finding of an omental cyst is a freely movable abdominal mass, which should be considered in differential diagnosis of these cases. The diagnostic procedures include...

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...

Omental torsion is a rare cause of acute abdominal pain. We report a case of omental torsion in a 7-year-old girl, who presented with right iliac fossa pain. The patient underwent an open appendicectomy, during which a normal appendix was identified and a diagnosis of omental torsion was made. The affected segment of omentum was resected along with the appendix. The patient made an uncomplicate...

The canine omental bursa is a virtual cavity enclosed by the greater and lesser omentum. While previous representations of this bursa were always purely schematic, a novel casting technique was developed to depict the three-dimensional organization of the omental bursa more consistently. A self-expanding polyurethane-based foam was injected into the omental bursa through the omental foramen in ...

Omental and mesenteric lipomas are very rare benign lesions of mature adipose tissue. They are well-defined, noninvasive, and encapsulated masses that can be discovered in asymptomatic patients or may cause variable nonspecific symptoms depending on their size and location. The omental and mesenteric lipoma has confusing features in ultrasound; however, computed tomography and magnetic resonanc...

Primary omental infarction (POI) has a low incidence worldwide, with most cases occurring in adults. This condition is rarely considered in the differential diagnosis of acute abdominal pain in childhood. Herein, we present a case of omental infarction in an obese 10-year-old boy who presented with acute abdominal pain in the right lower abdomen. The ultrasound (US) examination did not reveal t...