TY - JOUR A2 - Saber, A. A. A2 - Merrett, N. D. A2 - Çolak, T. AU - Naidoo, K. AU - Mewa Kinoo, S. AU - Singh, B. PY - 2013 DA - 2013/02/26 TI - Small Bowel Injury in Peritoneal Encapsulation following Penetrating Abdominal Trauma SP - 379464 VL - 2013 AB - Small bowel encapsulation is a rare entity which is usually found incidentally at autopsy. We report the first case of peritoneal encapsulation encountered serendipitously at laparotomy undertaken for penetrating abdominal trauma and review the literature on peritoneal encapsulation. We also compare this phenomenon to abdominal cocoon and sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis. SN - 2090-6900 UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/379464 DO - 10.1155/2013/379464 JF - Case Reports in Surgery PB - Hindawi Publishing Corporation KW - ER -