MORPHOFUNCTIONAL CHARACTERS OF THE GREATER OMENTUM

The paper provides a brief data overview of the national and the foreign recent decades literature on vari­ous aspects of the morphofunctional organization of the greater omentum in the physiological and various patho­logical states of the organism (in the process of morphogenesis, in the conditions of age-related alterations, under various experimental exposures, as well as in the postoperative transformations after surgical interventions due to inflammatory and tumor processes). The data on morphofunctional organization of the greater omentum main tissue components (mesothelium, adipose and lymphoid tissues) have been analyzed and summarized.