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Query: UMLS:C0016199 (flank pain)
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The value of herniography was reviewed in 45 patients with a variety of urological symptoms (4 with flank pain, 20 with pain from the funicle or scrotum, 11 with symptoms simulating prostatitis and 10 with ill-defined symptoms from the small pelvis). In no patient was a groin hernia palpable at physical examination. However, herniography revealed an inguinal hernia in 6 patients who underwent herniorrhaphy, whereafter 5 became asymptomatic. We recommend herniography in patients with long-standing obscure groin pain to reveal the presence of a nonpalpable inguinal hernia.
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PMID:Inguinal hernia in urological patients: the value of herniography. 337 96

A 34-year-old male presented with exquisite left flank pain. Computed tomography showed a hyperdense vascular structure surrounded by whirling linear streaks situated in the greater omentum under the splenic flexure of the colon. Omental stranding extended caudally into the pelvis where part of the inflamed omentum entered a left inguinal hernia sac. Surgery revealed left-sided torsion of the greater omentum. Left-sided omental torsion is infrequent and pre-operative diagnosis is rarely established. The CT findings of an omental fatty mass with a whirling pattern is characteristic of omental torsion. Preoperative diagnosis is important because conservative management has been suggested.
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PMID:Left-sided omental torsion: CT appearance. 1119 24