Abdominal Cocoon


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A descriptive term for the fibrotic encasement of the entire small intestine in sclerosing peritonitis, a spontaneous idiopathic process in young women, which follows peritoneovenous shunting, practolol therapy, peritoneal dialysis, chemotherapy, or in which other unknown toxins stimulate fibroblastic proliferation and reactive fibrosis
Treatment Surgical lysis of adhesions and constricting bands
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Idiopathic sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis: abdominal cocoon. World J Gastroenterol 2012; 18: 1999-2004.
An unusual cause of intestinal obstruction: abdominal cocoon. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2010; 194: 176-8.
A rare cause of small bowel obstruction
Solak, "Abdominal cocoon syndrome: preoperative diagnostic criteria, good clinical outcome with medical treatment and review of the literature," Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology, vol.
Cipe, "Supposedto be rare cause of intestinal obstruction; abdominal cocoon: report of two cases," Clinical Imaging, vol.
Intestinal Obstruction in a Patient with Sclerosing Encapsulating Peritonitis
Unusual small intestinal obstruction in adolescent girls: the abdominal cocoon. Br J Surg 1978;65:427-4302.
A case of abdominal cocoon. J Korean Med Sci1995;10:220-225.
Surgical treatment of sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis
Tubercular abdominal cocoon is a rare cause of small bowel obstruction.
Tubercular abdominal cocoon- a rare cause of intestinal obstruction
Despite an extensive search of available literature, we could not come across any similar case in which bowel being encased within a cocoon, that itself was encased within a larger cocoon, as reported here--an abdominal cocoon within a cocoon!
Cocoon within an abdominal cocoon
Abdominal cocoon presenting with early post operative small bowel obstruction is extremely rare entity.
Abdominal cocoon syndrome
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