Omental infarction as a delayed complication of abdominal surgery

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 341-343

  Schwartzman, Gregory J ^a   Jacobs, Jill E ^a   Birnbaum, Bernard A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Infarction; Omentum; Surgery

Indexed keywords

OILS AND FATS; PATHOLOGY; RADIOLOGY; SURGERY;

OMENTAL INFRACTION;

DISEASES;

FAT;

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTITIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GREATER OMENTUM; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; INFARCTION; INFLAMMATION; LIQUID; MALE; OBESITY; OVEREXERTION; PERFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIODIAGNOSIS; TORSION;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ADENOCARCINOMA; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INFARCTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OMENTUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0034771724     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-7071(01)00314-X     Document Type: Article

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