title: Omental infarction in pediatric patients: sonographic and CT findings.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Children with omental infarction typically present with abdominal pain and are diagnosed clinically as having acute appendicitis. Our purpose was to perform a retrospective review of the imaging findings in nine children with omental infarction as an aid to radiologists in distinguishing this entity from acute appendicitis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In pediatric patients with omental infarction, both CT and sonography show a heterogeneous mass characteristically situated between the anterior abdominal wall and the colon. It is important for radiologists to recognize the characteristic imaging findings seen with omental infarction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite, 1001 Johnson Ferry Rd., Atlanta, GA 30342, USA.
authors.forename: J Damien
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Grattan-Smith
authors.forename: David E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Blews
authors.forename: Theodore
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Brand
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007238:Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D009852:Omentum / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography