Idiopathic abdominal cocoon: a rare presentation of small bowel obstruction in a virgin abdomen. How much do we know?

Abdominal cocoon is an extremely rare condition that has been mainly associated with young adolescent women. It was first described in 1978 by Foo et al. We present here a case that describes an otherwise healthy adult man who presented with intestinal obstruction and was found to have an abdominal...

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Autores principales: Al-Azzawi, Marwa, Al-Alawi, Rashid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2017
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Rare Disease
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5747623/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28684645
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-219918
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description Abdominal cocoon is an extremely rare condition that has been mainly associated with young adolescent women. It was first described in 1978 by Foo et al. We present here a case that describes an otherwise healthy adult man who presented with intestinal obstruction and was found to have an abdominal cocoon, also known as a peritoneal sac. The patient was taken for a laparotomy and the sac was released through blunt dissection along the avascular planes. He was discharged in good condition 3 days postoperatively. We discuss some of the current literature and previously reported cases on this condition.
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spelling pubmed-57476232018-01-03 Idiopathic abdominal cocoon: a rare presentation of small bowel obstruction in a virgin abdomen. How much do we know? Al-Azzawi, Marwa Al-Alawi, Rashid BMJ Case Rep Rare Disease Abdominal cocoon is an extremely rare condition that has been mainly associated with young adolescent women. It was first described in 1978 by Foo et al. We present here a case that describes an otherwise healthy adult man who presented with intestinal obstruction and was found to have an abdominal cocoon, also known as a peritoneal sac. The patient was taken for a laparotomy and the sac was released through blunt dissection along the avascular planes. He was discharged in good condition 3 days postoperatively. We discuss some of the current literature and previously reported cases on this condition. BMJ Publishing Group 2017-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5747623/ /pubmed/28684645 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-219918 Text en © BMJ Publishing Group Ltd (unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2017. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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Idiopathic abdominal cocoon: a rare presentation of small bowel obstruction in a virgin abdomen. How much do we know?
title Idiopathic abdominal cocoon: a rare presentation of small bowel obstruction in a virgin abdomen. How much do we know?
title_full Idiopathic abdominal cocoon: a rare presentation of small bowel obstruction in a virgin abdomen. How much do we know?
title_fullStr Idiopathic abdominal cocoon: a rare presentation of small bowel obstruction in a virgin abdomen. How much do we know?
title_full_unstemmed Idiopathic abdominal cocoon: a rare presentation of small bowel obstruction in a virgin abdomen. How much do we know?
title_short Idiopathic abdominal cocoon: a rare presentation of small bowel obstruction in a virgin abdomen. How much do we know?
title_sort idiopathic abdominal cocoon: a rare presentation of small bowel obstruction in a virgin abdomen. how much do we know?
topic Rare Disease
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5747623/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28684645
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-219918
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