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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Chieng JSL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7900814 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Singapore medical journal 20200101 1
A 56-year-old man presented to the emergency department with acute upper abdominal pain and mild leucocytosis. The pain was not relieved by intravenous analgesia. Computed tomography of the abdomen and pelvis demonstrated a focal area of fat stranding with a thin peripheral rim of high attenuation and a punctate central hyperdense dot in the vicinity of the falciform ligament. The diagnosis of focal infarction of the falciform ligament fatty appendage was made based on the imaging findings. The ...[more]