An unusual cause of acute abdomen-epiploic appendicitis: report of two cases

Busra Burcu; Ozgur Ekinci; Ibrahim Inan; Ferman Tevfik Ozyalvac; Turgut Tunc Eren; Orhan Alimoglu

doi:10.14744/nci.2015.25338

An unusual cause of acute abdomen-epiploic appendicitis: report of two cases

North Clin Istanb. 2015 Sep 25;2(2):171-174. doi: 10.14744/nci.2015.25338. eCollection 2015.

Authors

Busra Burcu¹, Ozgur Ekinci¹, Ibrahim Inan², Ferman Tevfik Ozyalvac¹, Turgut Tunc Eren¹, Orhan Alimoglu¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of General Surgery, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Goztepe Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
² Department of Radiology, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Goztepe Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.

Abstract

Epiploic appendices, first described in 1543 by Vesalius, are fatty structures which are attached through the length of the colon and consisted of visceral peritoneum. Epiploic appendicitis is an uncommon and self-limiting disease. In this report, we aimed to present two patients with epiploic appendicitis.

Keywords: Colon; epiploic appendicitis; epiploic appendix.

Publication types

Case Reports