Re: Endo with Omentum Involvement????
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From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu Oct 16 19:07:19 2008
OOPS!! My mistake!!
It IS the Omentum, it's called the 'greater omentum'.
It is part of the peritonuem. Here's the wiki link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_omentum
Sounds like it involves the colon.
At Thu, 16 Oct 2008, anonymous wrote:
>
>Sounds like a spelling problem. The doc probably meant "peritoneum".
>Endo frequently involves the peritoneum. Probably he just wrote part of
>it
>(ie: oneum) or screwed up the spelling. Here's a link on wiki about the
>peritoneum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peritoneum.
>
> Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Kathy wrote:
>>
>>Yeah it said that it involved the omentum and ovary and the pelvic
>>sidewall which is making me think that's why the pain has been so bad.
>>My doctor's office won't answer any questions I have...they seem to know
>>very little about anything and are very very lazy. I called a month ago
>>to get the surgical report from my first lap in '02 and they told me
>>that they requested it from the hospital TWICE. So I called the
>>hospital myself last week and they said they have never received any
>>requests from my doc's office...which doesn't surprise me. So the
>>hospital is ordering the box from storage but it doesn't matter now
>>because I needed it to go along with the rest of my medical records that
>>I'm taking with me to Univ of Mich on Monday for my appt with the endo
>>specialist. I'm sure he'll be able to shed some light on it, but in the
>>meantime, it's just driving me crazy reading these things that were
>>never explained to me.
>>
>>At Thu, 16 Oct 2008, ada wrote:
>>>
>>>I cant remember now what it is exactly, but I do recall in my first lap
>>>endo adhesions had pulled my omentum and it was stuck to my ovary. Put
>>>a call into your doc's nurse and ask if you can not find the answer on
>>>the internet...
>>>
>>>At Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Kathy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Okay, so I've been feeling particularly crappy lately and decided to go
>>>>back thru my medical records and look thru them since my doctor never
>>>>really told me much about my endo other then the fact that I had it and
>>>>some was on my bowel. Well now looking at my medical records and
>>>>surgical reports I see some stuff. I see on one of my laps it says
>>>>there are "endometrial implants in posterior cul-de-sac and left ovar
>>>>and a small fibrotic mass on the left ovary". On another lap it says
>>>>"extensive adhesions right sidewall with involvement of the bowel and
>>>>omentum". I have tried googling it but cannot for the life of me find a
>>>>lot on the "Omentum". What is this and what kind of symptoms does THAT
>>>>create, especially when it says it's also between the side wall and the
>>>>bowel? Can someone please help? I'm driving myself crazy trying to find
>>>>out what that means since my doc so kindly did not tell me.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Ada
>>>
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