Abdominal Cocoon Secondary to Meconium Peritonitis in a Neonate: A Case Report

Abdominal cocoon is a complete or partial encasement of intestines and rarely viscera by a fibrocollagenous sac which is usually formed by a nonspecific chronic inflammatory reaction. We report a case of abdominal cocoon in a 2-day-old neonate presenting with intestinal obstruction.

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Autores principales: Ahmad, Safwan, Kayastha, Kanchan, Javed, Sana, Wasti, Arsalan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420344/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26023432
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author Ahmad, Safwan
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description Abdominal cocoon is a complete or partial encasement of intestines and rarely viscera by a fibrocollagenous sac which is usually formed by a nonspecific chronic inflammatory reaction. We report a case of abdominal cocoon in a 2-day-old neonate presenting with intestinal obstruction.
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spelling pubmed-44203442015-05-28 Abdominal Cocoon Secondary to Meconium Peritonitis in a Neonate: A Case Report Ahmad, Safwan Kayastha, Kanchan Javed, Sana Wasti, Arsalan J Neonatal Surg Case Report Abdominal cocoon is a complete or partial encasement of intestines and rarely viscera by a fibrocollagenous sac which is usually formed by a nonspecific chronic inflammatory reaction. We report a case of abdominal cocoon in a 2-day-old neonate presenting with intestinal obstruction. EL-MED-Pub 2013-01-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4420344/ /pubmed/26023432 Text en Copyright © 2013 Ahmad et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of 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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Ahmad, Safwan
Kayastha, Kanchan
Javed, Sana
Wasti, Arsalan
Abdominal Cocoon Secondary to Meconium Peritonitis in a Neonate: A Case Report
title Abdominal Cocoon Secondary to Meconium Peritonitis in a Neonate: A Case Report
title_full Abdominal Cocoon Secondary to Meconium Peritonitis in a Neonate: A Case Report
title_fullStr Abdominal Cocoon Secondary to Meconium Peritonitis in a Neonate: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Abdominal Cocoon Secondary to Meconium Peritonitis in a Neonate: A Case Report
title_short Abdominal Cocoon Secondary to Meconium Peritonitis in a Neonate: A Case Report
title_sort abdominal cocoon secondary to meconium peritonitis in a neonate: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420344/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26023432
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