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Please doc, i had a.inguinal surgery. and the said he had cut part of my omentum. what is that?
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Abdominal fatty: There is a structure called omentum which is fatty mobile structure which hangs from upper stomach and which fills some hernias. Loss of part or even all is not serious in itself.
Answered 8/28/2017
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