[Chronic encapsulating peritonitis (case report and collective review)].

On the base of their own observation of two cases of chronic encapsulating peritonitis (on the whole the cases studied are three if we consider the one previously reported by De Marchi and Manara in 1947), the AA. review aethiopathogenetic factor, anatomopathological, clinical and radiological findings of this rare but not exceptional disease, and they show the most important features of surgical treatment. The AA. underline the difficulties of a preoperative correct diagnosis and, in accordance with other AA., they expose the good results surgically obtained also in their own cases.