Abdominal Cocoon Causing Small Bowel Obstruction: Rarity
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An Unusual Small Bowel Obstruction (abdominal Cocoon): a Case Report
Abdominal cocoon is a rare disease which causes small-bowel obstruction that is characterized by a thick, fibrotic and cocoon-like membrane encapsulating total or partially the small bowel1,2,3. Its etiology remains unknown4,5. Surgical management is the treatment of choice1. In this report, it is described a young patient with abdominal cocoon who presented clinical signs and paraclinical find...
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عنوان ژورنال: OMICS Journal of Radiology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2167-7964
DOI: 10.4172/2167-7964.1000183