Year 2015 / Volume 107 / Number 11
Letter to the Editor
Infarction of the greater omentum. Case report

706-707

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2015.3754/2015

Rebeca Amo Alonso, Jaime de la Peña Cadenato, Andrea Loza Vargas, Fernando Santos Santamarta, Ramón Sánchez-Ocaña Hernández, Juan José Arenal Vera,

Abstract
The case of a 65 year old woman presented symptoms of acute abdomen secondary to full torsion of the greater omentum is presented, diagnosed preoperatively by CT, thus avoiding emergency surgery due to good evolution with conservative attitude. This disease is a rare cause of abdominal pain, but we include it in the differential diagnosis of acute abdomen. Currently imaging techniques allow preoperative diagnosis to avoid emergency surgery, and maintain an expectant attitude to act on patient evolution. In our case, we chose conservative attitude and the patient is asymptomatic 7 months later.
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Amo Alonso R, de la Peña Cadenato J, Loza Vargas A, Santos Santamarta F, Sánchez-Ocaña Hernández R, Arenal Vera J, et all. Infarction of the greater omentum. Case report. 3754/2015


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Publication history

Received: 03/03/2015

Accepted: 07/04/2015

Online First: 08/10/2015

Published: 30/10/2015

Article revision time: 33 days

Article Online First time: 219 days

Article editing time: 241 days


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