OMENTAL INFARCTION: SURGICAL or CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT? A CASE REPORTS and CASE SERIES SYSTEMATIC REVIEW.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Omental infarction (OI) is an infrequent cause of acute abdominal pain and there is no consensus on whether conservative or surgical treatment is the best strategy when performing positive CT diagnosis.

Objectives

To assess which of the two treatments is the most commonly adopted and compare outcomes in terms of success rate in resolution of symptoms and hospital length of stay.

Eligibility criteria

Case report and case series of patients with abdominal pain and positive diagnosis by CT of omental infarction.

Data sources

PubMed, Science Direct and Google Scholar in combination with cross-referencing searches and manual searches of eligible articles from January 2000 to June 2018.

Participants

Patients older than 18 years of age.

Methods

SUBMITTER: Medina-Gallardo NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7334794 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature