Acute abdominal pain in children is the most common cause of emergency department admissions. Omental infarction is a rare cause of acute abdominal pain in this age group, accounting for approximately 15% of cases in children and 0.024–0.1% of cases of surgery for suspected appendicitis at the same age. Its clinical presentation may mimic similar diseases such as acute appendicitis, epiploic appendagitis, and mesenteric panniculitis. Ultrasound is the modality of choice for the initial evaluation of acute abdominal pain in pediatric patients and it can be used with confdence in the diagnosis and management of omental infarction in children. In this brief review, we focus on the main ultrasound fndings and their diagnostic clue for omental infarction and its mimics.
Not only fat: omental infarction and its mimics in children. Clinical and ultrasound findings: a pictorial review / Esposito, F; Di Serafino, M; Mauro, A; Mercogliano, C; Cocco, C; Zenzeri, L; Ferrara, D; Iacobellis, F; Evangelisti, M; Ziparo, C; Di Nardo, G.. - In: JOURNAL OF ULTRASOUND. - ISSN 1876-7931. - (2020).
Not only fat: omental infarction and its mimics in children. Clinical and ultrasound findings: a pictorial review
Zenzeri L;Di Nardo G.
2020
Abstract
Acute abdominal pain in children is the most common cause of emergency department admissions. Omental infarction is a rare cause of acute abdominal pain in this age group, accounting for approximately 15% of cases in children and 0.024–0.1% of cases of surgery for suspected appendicitis at the same age. Its clinical presentation may mimic similar diseases such as acute appendicitis, epiploic appendagitis, and mesenteric panniculitis. Ultrasound is the modality of choice for the initial evaluation of acute abdominal pain in pediatric patients and it can be used with confdence in the diagnosis and management of omental infarction in children. In this brief review, we focus on the main ultrasound fndings and their diagnostic clue for omental infarction and its mimics.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
