The diagnostic yield of colonoscopy and the therapeutic value of intraduodenal amidotrizoic acid injection in intestinal Diphyllobothrium latum infection: Report of a case [2]

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2468-2470

  Fujita, Minoru ^a   Koga, Hideki ^b   Iida, Mitsuo ^b   Hirakawa, Katsuya ^b   Hoshika, Kazunori ^b   Haruma, Ken ^b   Okino, Tetsuya ^b  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; DIATRIZOATE; MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE; POLYSORBATE 80;

AGED; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIPHYLLOBOTHRIASIS; DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; INTESTINE MOTILITY; LETTER; MALE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCOLEX; TOXICITY;

EID: 0036735881     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2002.06009.x     Document Type: Letter

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