title: Primary omental infarction: laparoscopic approach in two pediatric cases: a case review.
abstract: Two cases of pediatric acute abdomen owing to omental infarction are described in this paper, which were successfully treated laparoscopically. Owing to the objective rareness and absence of typical symptoms, the diagnosis was often neither made nor considered preoperatively. For other emergency situations, laparoscopy has been shown to be both a diagnostic and a therapeutic tool of a rare pathology found also in the pediatric patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Ospedale Civile, Vittorio Veneto (TV), Italy. fagresta@libero.it
authors.forename: Ferdinando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Agresta
authors.forename: Natalino
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bedin
mesh_terms: D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004630:Emergencies; D006801:Humans; D007238:Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D009852:Omentum / Q000098:blood supply*