Dance of live adult filarial worms is a reliable sign of scrotal filarial infection

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 765-769

  Chaubal, Nitin G ^a,b   Pradhan, Gautam M ^a,d   Chaubal, Jyoti N ^a   Ramani, Subhash K ^c  

^a Thane Ultrasound Centre Mumbai   (India)

^b JASLOK HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^c TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^d NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Diethylcarbamazine citrate; Filarial dance sign; Filariasis; High resolution ultrasonography; Scrotum

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PATIENT TREATMENT; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

FILARIAL INFECTION;

DISEASES;

DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FILARIA; FILARIASIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MICROFILARIA; SCROTUM DISORDER; SCROTUM FILARIASIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 0041364599     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2003.22.8.765     Document Type: Article

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