*Corresponding Author Dr. Asit Kumar Sikary Department of Forensic Medicine Room 302, 2nd floor, New Forensic Building All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi, India E-mail: asitsikary@gmail.com
Online published on 20 December, 2016.
Omentum is like a policeman of the abdomen which contains inflammation process in the peritoneal cavity and seals any perforation in the intestines as a natural process. Various surgical procedures uses omentum patch to seal intestinal perforation. In the reported postmortem case, an incidental finding of omentum trying to seal a perforation in the peritoneal wall as a natural process, is seen. The deceased died due to sigmoid perforation. No such finding has been reported in forensic literature yet.
abdominal pain, peritonitis, peritoneal perforation, sigmoid perforation
