Re: Has any one been diagnosed with omental adhesions?
From: Terry (lightning_thunder2001@yahoo.com)
Mon Sep 10 21:08:01 2001
At Mon, 24 May 1999, Christine M. Smith wrote:
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>At Sun, 23 May 1999, michele wrote:
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>>Hi-
>>Surgery went well--still recovering in a nice hotel before going home.
>>I'll find out more tomorrow, but I have a drawing from my sugeon who
>>found very wispy adhesions on the omentum. My understanding is that the
>>omentum is a fat layer that protects other organs. Is this abdominal in
>>nature?
>>
>>Curious to find out more. Please post on forum. I am in between e-mail
>>addresses and locations.
>>
>>Thanks for those who had positive thoughts.
>>
>>--
>>Michele
>>
>The omentum is a kind of covering over the abdominal organs. I'm not
>sure if it is fat, or some kind of tissue. I read that they actually
>can use this tissue in skin grafts. I think I read this on a
>cardiovascular surgery forum. I think I read that they harvest the
>omentum to repair the surgical incision when necessary.
>
>The omentum was involved on my left side.I think it was attached to the
>sigmoid colon.
>
>Hope you are recovering nicely from your surgery.
>
>Chris S.
Looking for something on Rectal scar tissue as I have a friend that is
having that problem after having 95% of her colon removed and cannot
find anything on it anywhere.
--
Yours truly,
Terry