Acute GI and surgical complications of Ascaris lumbricoides infection

Infections in Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 154-159

  Basavaraju, Sridhar V ^a   Hotez, Peter J ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascariasis; Obstruction, intestinal; Pancreatitis; Roundworm

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBENDAZOLE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BENZIMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; BILIRUBIN; ENEMA; HYPERTONIC SOLUTION; MEBENDAZOLE; PIPERAZINE CITRATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BILIARY COLIC; CHOLANGITIS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GRANULOMA; HELMINTHIASIS; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LIVER ABSCESS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS DISEASE; PERITONEUM TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; REFUGEE; SIDE EFFECT; TROPICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037357105     PISSN: 07496524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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