Ascariasis cholecystitis: An unusual cause

Ascariasis is the most common helminthic infection to infest man. Usually the adult worm lives in the small intestine. Rarely it migrates through the ampulla of vater and enters the common bile duct. We are reporting a case of gall bladder ascariasis causing acute cholecystitis treated by laparoscop...

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Autores principales: Shetty, Balakrishna, Shetty, Prashanth Kumar, Sharma, Pritam
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Unusual Case
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2699226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19547655
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description Ascariasis is the most common helminthic infection to infest man. Usually the adult worm lives in the small intestine. Rarely it migrates through the ampulla of vater and enters the common bile duct. We are reporting a case of gall bladder ascariasis causing acute cholecystitis treated by laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Presence of Ascaris lumbricoides in gallbladder is rare entity as it is difficult to reach there due to the narrow and tortuous cystic duct.
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spelling pubmed-26992262009-06-22 Ascariasis cholecystitis: An unusual cause Shetty, Balakrishna Shetty, Prashanth Kumar Sharma, Pritam J Minim Access Surg Unusual Case Ascariasis is the most common helminthic infection to infest man. Usually the adult worm lives in the small intestine. Rarely it migrates through the ampulla of vater and enters the common bile duct. We are reporting a case of gall bladder ascariasis causing acute cholecystitis treated by laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Presence of Ascaris lumbricoides in gallbladder is rare entity as it is difficult to reach there due to the narrow and tortuous cystic duct. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2699226/ /pubmed/19547655 Text en © Journal of Minimal Access Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Shetty, Balakrishna
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Ascariasis cholecystitis: An unusual cause
title Ascariasis cholecystitis: An unusual cause
title_full Ascariasis cholecystitis: An unusual cause
title_fullStr Ascariasis cholecystitis: An unusual cause
title_full_unstemmed Ascariasis cholecystitis: An unusual cause
title_short Ascariasis cholecystitis: An unusual cause
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