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Review of the Literature and Report of Six Cases

ROBERT A. MAINZER, MD; ANTONIO SIMOES, MD

AMA Arch Surg. 1964;88(6):974-983.

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The first published report establishing torsion of the omentum as a clinical entity is generally credited to Pierre de Marchette⁵³ in 1851. This report, and others which followed, were concerned with what is currently classified as a secondary type of torsion related to pre-existing intra-abdominal adhesions, hernias—especially inguinal—and other inflammatory foci. The first report of a primary torsion of the omentum unrelated to any other intra-abdominal lesion was recorded by Eitel in 1899.²⁷ While additional scattered reports have since appeared, the comprehensive reviews and additions of clinical material to the early surgical literature reported by McWhorter⁵⁷ in 1928, D'Errico^23,24 in 1930, Smyth⁸⁴ in 1930, Jeffries⁴⁸ in 1931, Morris⁶³ in 1932, Barsky and Schwartz⁵ in 1937, and Eliason and Johnson²⁸ in 1939 are especially noteworthy.

Sterling and Goldsmith⁸⁶ in 1951 established the incidence of primary torsion of the omentum to be . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BROOKLYN, NY

Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (Dr. Mainzer); Resident Department of Surgery (Dr. Simoes).; From the departments of surgery of The State University of New York and The Long Island College Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Jan 9, 1964.

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