Having my omentum removed after an ovarian cancer diagnosis impacted my quality of life. In 2016, 15 months after my cancer diagnosis, and nine months after completing chemo, I went on my first work ...
Writing in 1902, Henry O. Marcy implored his surgical colleagues to respect the “great fatty apron” that protects abdominal organs from infection 1. That apron is the omentum, a fatty tissue that ...