Ozbey H, Salman T, Celik A
Department of Pediatric Surgery, University of Istanbul, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Turkey.
Surg Today. 1999;29(6):568-9. doi: 10.1007/BF02482356.
In the absence of any pathological condition in the pelvis of children who present with acute abdomen, the observation of serosanguineous intraabdominal fluid should prompt the surgeon to investigate the omentum. A 6-year-old boy who was admitted with a clinical picture of acute appendicitis, and was later diagnosed during a laparotomy to have primary torsion of the omentum, is reported. Obesity, exercise, and the presence of a bifid omentum were confirmed to be the predisposing factors.
