Primary infarction of the gastro-colic omentum and review of the literature

ABSTRACT

A 31-year-old male patient presented with epigastric pain and right-sided abdominal pain of one-day duration. He was later diagnosed as having a gastro-colic omental infarction [fixed part of the omentum]. To our knowledge this is the first case to be reported in the literature. In all other reports, infarctions were localized to the free omentum. We report this case to highlight the importance of omental infarction in the differential diagnosis of acute abdominal pain, since the management is mainly conservative