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What is the typical treatment and prognosis of omental infarction?
Generally, conservative management as this condition is often self-limiting. Surgery or image-guided drainage may be necessary in the case of abscess formation.
Bilateral exophytic renal cysts. There is fat stranding with acute inflammatory changes surrounding the peritoneal fat in the lower left abdomen. While there is diverticular disease in the adjacent colon there is no colonic wall thickening, favoring omental infarct as the source of the patient's pain. Bilateral hip prosthesis present.