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Figure 1: A feet long thick bowel mass.
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It was a pearly white thickened bowel, a foot long and just proximal to ileocecal valve (Fig. 1).
Figure 2: Unveiling of accordion like packed bowel within a pearly white membrane.
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The operative diagnosis was abdominal cocoon and about 3 feet of small bowel was packed within a pearly white tough membrane as in accordion (Fig. 2).