Taenia saginata: a rare cause of bowel obstruction

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 527-528

  Karanikas, I D ^a   Sakellaridis, T E ^a   Alexiou, C P ^a   Siaperas, P A ^a   Fotopoulos, A Chr ^a   Antsaklis, G I ^a  

^a SISMANOGLIO HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Beef tapeworm; Gastrointestinal tract; Greece; Intestinal obstruction; Necrosis; Taenia saginata

Indexed keywords

PRAZIQUANTEL;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CESTODIASIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; HEART FAILURE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTESTINE NECROSIS; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SIGMOID VOLVULUS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TAENIA SAGINATA; VOLVULUS;

ADULT; AGED; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; ILEAL DISEASES; ILEOCECAL VALVE; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MALE; SIGMOID DISEASES; TAENIASIS;

BOVINAE; TAENIA SAGINATA;

EID: 33847742070     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2006.07.004     Document Type: Article

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