Monday, 9 May 2016

CASE 377: OMENTUM PSEUDOTUMOR, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM


Woman 44 yo  pain  at  RLQ   and fever for  2 weeks, being treated  ambulatory with antibiotics. In clinical examination of  abdomen wall at RLQ is edema,  induration and pain in compression.
Ultrasound  shows the abdomen wall  thickening with edema and fluid in muscle
(us 1);  no  air or  blood supply of this  site  (us 2), us 3: the great omentum  is  thickening  and adherent to  abdominal wall; us 4=  small intestine  walled-off.





MSCT with CE= the  wall of abdomen is edema  and great omentum is  covered RLQ site (CT1);   CT2: edema of abdomen wall; CT3: sagittal view.






Blood tests: WBC rised to 20k;  high CRP =  30ng/mL.
Clinical  diagnosis is  suspected  plastron appendiculaire .
Normal coecum is looking in colono-endoscopy.


Operation for removing a very big hard mass of great omentum, (see macro1, 2)
and report of surgeon is  looked like  tumor.
MICROSCOPIC REPORT IS  INFLAMATION, NO TUMOR CELL.






CONCLUSION: INFLAMATION of PSEUDOTUMOR from GREAT OMENTUM.
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