Omental infarction: An unusual cause of right iliac fossa pain in children

• Main Authors: Laxmikant Gupta (Author), Akshay K Saxena (Author), Kushaljit S Sodhi (Author), Jai K Mahajan (Author), Niranjan Khandelwal (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Omental infarction is an uncommon cause of acute abdomen in the pediatric population. We report a case of a 4-year-old male child with right iliac fossa pain. The final diagnosis was made on ultrasound and computed tomography findings. This entity needs to be differentiated from acute conditions lik...