Abdominal cocoon - A rare etiology of intestinal obstruction

Abdominal cocoon is one of the rare causes of intestinal obstruction. It is referred as complete or partial small bowel encapsulation caused by the thick fibrocollagenous membrane. It is most common in young adolescent girls. We present a 40-year-old male patient with idiopathic abdominal cocoon. Fe...

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Autores principales: Jagdale, Amol, Prasla, Shopnil, Mittal, Saurav
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5787980/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29417033
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.222040
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description Abdominal cocoon is one of the rare causes of intestinal obstruction. It is referred as complete or partial small bowel encapsulation caused by the thick fibrocollagenous membrane. It is most common in young adolescent girls. We present a 40-year-old male patient with idiopathic abdominal cocoon. Few cases of male patients suffering from idiopathic abdominal cocoon have been reported in literature.
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spelling pubmed-57879802018-02-07 Abdominal cocoon - A rare etiology of intestinal obstruction Jagdale, Amol Prasla, Shopnil Mittal, Saurav J Family Med Prim Care Case Report Abdominal cocoon is one of the rare causes of intestinal obstruction. It is referred as complete or partial small bowel encapsulation caused by the thick fibrocollagenous membrane. It is most common in young adolescent girls. We present a 40-year-old male patient with idiopathic abdominal cocoon. Few cases of male patients suffering from idiopathic abdominal cocoon have been reported in literature. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5787980/ /pubmed/29417033 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.222040 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_full Abdominal cocoon - A rare etiology of intestinal obstruction
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title_short Abdominal cocoon - A rare etiology of intestinal obstruction
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5787980/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29417033
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.222040
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