Idiopathic abdominal cocoon syndrome with unilateral abdominal cryptorchidism and greater omentum hypoplasia in a young case of small bowel obstruction
Xiang Fei, Hai-Rui Yang, Peng-Fei Yu, Guo-Li Gu, Department of General Surgery, the Air Force General Hospital, Chinese PLA, Beijing 100142, China
Hai-Bo Sheng, Department of Urinary Surgery, the Air Force General Hospital, Chinese PLA, Beijing 100142, China
Author contributions: Gu GL designed the research; Gu GL, Yang HR, Sheng HB and Fei X performed the research; Fei X and Yu PF collected and analyzed the data; Gu GL and Fei X wrote the paper; and Gu GL revised the paper.
Supported by Major Projects of Chinese PLA “13th Five-Year Plan” Logistics Research Subject, No. AKJ15J003.
Institutional review board statement: This work has been carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (2000) of the World Medical Association. This study was approved ethically by Ethics Committee of the Air Force General Hospital, PLA.
Informed consent statement: The patient involved in this study gave his written informed consent authorizing use and disclosure of his protected health information.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors have no conflicts of interests to declare.
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Correspondence to: Dr. Guo-Li Gu, Associate Professor, Deputy Director, Department of General Surgery, the Air Force General Hospital, Chinese PLA, No.30, Fucheng Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100142, China. kzggl@163.com
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Received: February 14, 2016
Peer-review started: February 14, 2016
First decision: March 7, 2016
Revised: March 15, 2016
Accepted: April 7, 2016
Article in press: April 7, 2016
Published online: May 28, 2016