Idiopathic sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis (or abdominal cocoon)

BMC Surgery

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Serafimidis, Costas ^a   Katsarolis, Ioannis ^a   Vernadakis, Spyros ^a   Rallis, George ^a   Giannopoulos, George ^a   Legakis, Nikolaos ^a   Peros, George ^a  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEUS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PERITONITIS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; X RAY;

EID: 33645509494     PISSN: 14712482     EISSN: 14712482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2482-6-3     Document Type: Article

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