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Saed Jaber1, Khalid Dulaijan, Moutamn Sadoun
1Department of Surgery, King Fahd Medical Military Complex, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Case Reports in Gastroenterology
|May 10, 2011
Abstract:
Sclerosing peritonitis, more commonly called abdominal cocoon, is a rare intra-peritoneal disease that is characterized by complete or partial encapsulation of the small intestine by a thick collagenous membrane. This disease mostly presents in the form of small bowel obstruction, however in our case the patient presented with intra-cocoon bleeding following a motor vehicle accident.