Monday, April 13, 2009

Question of the day

When you have appendicitis, why greater omentum tends to wrap around the appendix? What mechanism?

Interesting question, greater omentum runs down as a barrier to prevent inflammation spreading to the parietal peritoneum or abdominal wall, but how? I don't know? Cytokines and adipose tissue? Dunno........

1 Comments:

Blogger Chin Yen Ryan said...

Good question! lets ask those surgeon who always operate on patients wif appendicitis.
That's what they always say, look for where greater omentum wrap around, that's where u can find the inflamed appendix, or just follow the tinea coli for the location of appendix. LOL

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