Evidence map›Paper›PMID 36388636›Full record

ArticleSAGE open medical case reports2022

Spontaneous omental infarction: A rare case of acute abdomen.

Duminda Subasinghe, Ravindri Jayasinghe, Gayani Ranaweera, Uditha Kodithuwakku

Open access · goldAbstract readCase Reports
In one paragraph

Article in SAGE open medical case reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Duminda SubasingheDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1805-1589
Ravindri JayasingheDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Gayani RanaweeraDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Uditha KodithuwakkuDepartment of Radiology, The National Hospital of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
National Hospital of Sri Lanka · LKUniversity of Colombo · LK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Omental infarction is a rare but a sinister cause of acute abdomen. Preoperative diagnosis is challenging due to its rare nature. It poses nonspecific abdominal signs that can be easily mistaken with other more common intra-abdominal pathologies. We report a case of a 37-year-old male patient presented with right lower quadrant abdominal pain with an elevation of inflammatory markers. His cross-sectional imaging did not a reveal specific diagnosis; therefore, a diagnostic laparoscopy was performed which revealed a non-inflamed appendix and an inflammatory mass formed by the ischemic omentum attached to the ascending colon. Diagnostic laparoscopy and subsequent laparotomy revealed spontaneous omental infarction. The histology of the resected specimen was in keeping with the omental necrosis. This case reflects the importance of considering omental infarction in patients presenting with abdominal pain and raised inflammatory markers. He made an uneventful recovery following surgery.

Indexed as

Acute abdomenspontaneous omental infarction

Identifiers

PMID36388636
PMCPMC9647286
OpenAlexW4309408832

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.