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Published on: February 26, 2009
Laparoscopic diagnosis and treatment of an infarcted epiploic appendage
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gundersen/Lutheran Medical Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA.
Abstract:
A patient experienced acute abdominal pain that was diagnosed at laparoscopy as being due to an infarcted epiploic appendage. To our knowledge, this is the second report of laparoscopic diagnosis and treatment of an epipolic disorder. Infarcted epiploic appendages may be associated with bowel obstruction and abscess formation. Therefore, they should be looked for at the time of diagnostic laparoscopy for acute abdominal pain of unclear etiology, and removed if present.

