Intestinal ascariasis: The commonest cause of bowel obstruction in children at a tertiary care center in Kashmir

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1099-1102

  Baba, Aejaz Ahsan ^a   Ahmad, Syed Mudasir ^a   Sheikh, Khursheed Ahmad ^a  

^a SHER I KASHMIR INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Ascariasis; Intestinal obstruction; Round worm

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ANASTOMOSIS; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CONSTIPATION; CYST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENTEROCUTANEOUS FISTULA; FECAL PERITONITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GALLBLADDER; GALLBLADDER PERFORATION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE RESECTION; INTESTINE SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEMATODE; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SANITATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO; SURGICAL INFECTION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VOLVULUS; VOMITING; WORM; WOUND INFECTION; X RAY;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINES; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 71449106993     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00383-009-2486-8     Document Type: Article

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