title: Diagnosis and management of idiopathic omental infarction: A case report.
abstract: A 32 year old man presented to casualty on three occasions in the space of four days, with intermittent, worsening abdominal pain. These symptoms imitated other commoner causes of acute abdomen and the site of onset changed, both factors delaying diagnosis. In due course, computer tomography imaging established findings indicative of omental infarction. Patient was discharged from hospital nine days later, having made a satisfactory recovery following successful conservative treatment. In this report, we evaluate the merits of a similar approach in future instances.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Royal Blackburn Hospital, East Lancashire Hospitals Trust, Blackburn, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Kushal P
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Barai
authors.forename: Benjamin C
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Knight
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