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Case Reports
. 2011 Jan;84(1):1-2.
doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.2011.10-0620.

Tuberculous abdominal cocoon

Ankur Gadodia  1 , Raju Sharma, Nadarajah Jeyaseelan
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Case Reports

Tuberculous abdominal cocoon

Ankur Gadodia et al. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2011 Jan.
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Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
BMFT image shows adherent small bowel loops clumped in the central abdomen.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) of the abdomen axial (A) and coronal reformatted (B) images reveal a 3-mm-thick membrane encasing the small bowel loops and forming a saclike structure.
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