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Abdominal cocoon: an unexpected cause of ascites in a healthy patient

Abdominal cocoon is the idiopathic fibrotic encasement of abdominal organs. It classically presents as small bowel obstruction in young women. In this case report, we present a rare example of a patient presenting solely with massive ascites of presumed gynecologic origin, who upon surgical explorat...

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Autores principales: Kappauf, Catharine, Rahaman, Jamal, Popowich, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6900338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31832134
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz310