Small Bowel Cocoon: A Distinct Disease with a New Developmental Etiology

We have treated two patients with small bowel (abdominal) cocoon who presented with acute and partial small bowel obstruction associated with an abdominal mass. Neither had a history of previous surgery, peritonitis, or prolonged drug therapy. The distinct features of this disease are illustrated. A...

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Autores principales: Bassiouny, Ibrahim E., Abbas, Tariq O.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3350059/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22606598
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/940515
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description We have treated two patients with small bowel (abdominal) cocoon who presented with acute and partial small bowel obstruction associated with an abdominal mass. Neither had a history of previous surgery, peritonitis, or prolonged drug therapy. The distinct features of this disease are illustrated. A developmental etiology and a new nomenclature for this disease are proposed, along with a review of the literature.
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spelling pubmed-33500592012-05-17 Small Bowel Cocoon: A Distinct Disease with a New Developmental Etiology Bassiouny, Ibrahim E. Abbas, Tariq O. Case Rep Surg Case Report We have treated two patients with small bowel (abdominal) cocoon who presented with acute and partial small bowel obstruction associated with an abdominal mass. Neither had a history of previous surgery, peritonitis, or prolonged drug therapy. The distinct features of this disease are illustrated. A developmental etiology and a new nomenclature for this disease are proposed, along with a review of the literature. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3350059/ /pubmed/22606598 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/940515 Text en Copyright © 2011 I. E. Bassiouny and T. O. Abbas. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Small Bowel Cocoon: A Distinct Disease with a New Developmental Etiology
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title_full Small Bowel Cocoon: A Distinct Disease with a New Developmental Etiology
title_fullStr Small Bowel Cocoon: A Distinct Disease with a New Developmental Etiology
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title_short Small Bowel Cocoon: A Distinct Disease with a New Developmental Etiology
title_sort small bowel cocoon: a distinct disease with a new developmental etiology
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3350059/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22606598
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/940515
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