Surgery still opens an unexpected bag of worms! An intraperitoneal live female Dirofilaria worm: Case report and review of the literatute

Surgical Infections

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 323-325

  Abbas, Khudair Fadhil ^a   Abd El Monem, Siam G ^a   Malik, Zeeshan ^a   Khan, Amir M ^a,b  

^a KING GEORGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; FILARIASIS; HERNIA STRANGULATION; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UMBILICAL HERNIA;

ABDOMINAL CAVITY; ANIMALS; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DIROFILARIASIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33746872550     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2006.7.323     Document Type: Article

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