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Acute presentation of cocoon abdomen as septic peritonitis mimicking with strangulated internal herniation: a case report

BACKGROUND: Abdominal cocoon syndrome is a rare cause of intestinal obstruction in which loops of small bowel get entrapped inside a fibro-collagenous membrane. Condition is also known in the literature as sclerosing peritonitis and in the majority of cases, it has no known cause. Although the major...

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Autores principales: Saqib, Sabah Uddin, Farooq, Rimsha, Saleem, Omair, Moeen, Sarosh, Chawla, Tabish Umer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8044279/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33851284
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-021-01179-7