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Primary omental torsion in children: case report


Khattala Khalid
Tenorkorang Snr Somuah
Elmadi Aziz
Rami Mohamed
Bouabdallah Youssef

Abstract

Primary omental torsion is a rare cause of acute abdominal pain, we report a case of 10-year-old boy admitted with crampy abdominal pain, routine laboratory tests and plain abdominal radiography was normal, the patient underwent surgical exploration with the initial diagnosis of appendicitis, primary omental torsion was confirmed and the omentum was untwisted, with good postoperative evolution.

Pan African Medical Journal 2013; 14:57

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