Hepatic and biliary ascariasis

Journal of Global Infectious Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 65-72

  Das, Anup K ^a  

^a ASSAM MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Ascaris lumbricoides; Biliary ductal ascariasis; Clinical manifestations; Complications and principles of treatment Hepatobiliary ascariasis; Pathophysiology; Recurrent pyogenic cholangitis; Review of pathogenesis; Roundworm infestation

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FECES ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEPATOBILIARY ASCARIASIS; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; LIFE CYCLE; LIVER SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE LOAD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT PYOGENIC CHOLANGITIS; REINFECTION; REVIEW; SOIL POLLUTION; SUSCEPTIBLE POPULATION;

EID: 84901408440     PISSN: 0974777X     EISSN: 09748245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0974-777X.132042     Document Type: Review

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