DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2013.v01i03.008

Pages: 78-80

Omental torsion is an extremely rare differential diagnosis of acute abdomen. It usually requires surgical intervention. More often it is diagnosed Intraoperative and treatment by resection is current management of choice, But with increasing use of pre-operative imaging this may need to be reconsidered. Preoperative diagnosis by clinical examination alone is almost never possible but increasing use of CT is making it possible to diagnose this preoperatively. We present here an adult male case of primary omental torsion, which was diagnosed preoperatively with classical whirlpool (Swirl Sign) with relevant review of literature.