This work presents the case of a 76-year old patient, with a large ulcerated thoraco-dorsal tumor, which was excised by a mixed surgical team (plastic and general surgery), and the resulted defect was closed by an omental flap, which was trans-peritoneal transposed and covered by split-thickness skin grafts. The surgical intervention steps and the postoperatory evolution are exposed. The surgic...

INTRODUCTION Cystic lesion of the omentum and mesentery are rare. The incidence of both cyst types has been variously reported to vary from 1/27,000-100,000 hospital admission. Omental cysts occur three to ten times less frequently than mesenteric cyst. Preoperative diagnosis is infrequently made because of lack of characteristic symptoms and signs. CASE PRESENTATION We present our diagnostic...

BACKGROUND In patients with extensive soft tissue fibrosis requiring circumferential pharyngeal reconstruction following definitive radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy, we take advantage of abundant omental progenitor factors in the tubed gastro-omental free flap. This study reviews our experience with this flap. METHODS Review of 11 patients (median follow-up, 2.8 years) undergoing total pharyn...

Acute primary haemorrhagic omental torsion is an atypical and deceptive cause of acute abdomen that could closely mimic a myriad of intra-abdominal catastrophes, especially perforated appendicitis. The author reports a 30 years man who had presented with gradually worsening right-sided abdominal pain of 2 days duration. Laboratory work-up and abdominal radiographs were inconclusive. Abdominal s...

Introduction. Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGBP) is a common procedure in obesity surgery. The aim of an antecolic approach is to reduce the rate of internal herniation. Our aim is to make bariatric surgeons aware of another possible complication of antecolic LRYGBP. Methods and Results. We present a case report of omental torsion 24 months after antecolic LRYGBP presenting as an ac...

Received 1/19/2010; revised 2/11/2010; accepted 2/23/2010. For correspondence and reprints contact: Yum-Kung Chu, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital. 201 Section 2, Shih-Pai Road, Taipei 112, Taiwan. Tel: (886)2-28757374 ext. 7301, E-mail: [email protected] Omental cake refers to infiltration of the omental fat by material of soft-tissue density. Diffuse pe...