作者: Costas Serafimidis , Ioannis Katsarolis , Spyros Vernadakis , George Rallis , George Giannopoulos
关键词: Laparotomy 、 Surgery 、 Sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis 、 Medicine 、 General surgery 、 Rare case 、 Bowel obstruction 、 Peritonitis 、 Adult population
摘要: Background Idiopathic sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis (or abdominal cocoon) is a rare cause of small bowel obstruction, especially in adult population. Diagnosis usually incidental at laparotomy. We discuss one such case, outlining the fact that an intra-operative surprise diagnosis could have been facilitated by previous investigations.