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- Title
Unexpected acute abdominal pain during pregnancy caused by primary omental torsion diagnosed laparoscopically: A case report and literature review.
- Authors
Mantoğlu, Barış; Altıntoprak, Fatih; Yiğit, Merve; Fırat, Necattin
- Abstract
Primary omental torsion (POT) is a rarely encountered clinical condition as an acute abdominal pathology. POT is more prevalent in males than females. The diagnosis of POT is challenging, and pregnancy initiates the diagnosis more difficult and essential. The fact that radiological methods such as computed tomography cannot be used during pregnancy constitutes the biggest problem in diagnosis. At this point, diagnostic laparoscopy plays a significant role in the diagnosis and treatment of acute abdominal pathologies in pregnant patients. The diagnosis of a 28-week pregnant woman who was admitted to our emergency department with the aggravation of abdominal pain was not clarified by abdominal ultrasound so the patient was diagnosed with POT by diagnostic laparoscopy. Conservative follow-up plays an important role in pregnant patients, and the poor progress of the patient in both laboratory and physical examination leads diagnostic laparoscopy to an important point when the limitation of imaging methods is added.
- Subjects
TORSION abnormality (Anatomy); PREGNANT women; LAPAROSCOPY; ABDOMINAL pain; ACUTE diseases; OMENTUM; RARE diseases; PREGNANCY
- Publication
Turkish Journal of Trauma & Emergency Surgery / Ulusal Travma ve Acil Cerrahi Dergisi, 2021, Vol 27, Issue 6, p706
- ISSN
1306-696X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14744/tjtes.2020.96898