Pancreatic ascariasis with periampullary carcinoma

Ascarias lumbricoides infestation is endemic in tropical countries. Most infections are asymptomatic, but it can produce a wide spectrum of manifestations including hepatobiliary and pancreatic complications. There are reports of association of biliary ascariasis with bilary malignancies in the past...

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Autores principales: Arulprakash, S, Sahu, Manoj Kumar, Dutta, Amit Kumar, Joseph, A, Chandy, George M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Dispatches
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4326995/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25709954
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5070.145590
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author Arulprakash, S
Sahu, Manoj Kumar
Dutta, Amit Kumar
Joseph, A
Chandy, George M
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description Ascarias lumbricoides infestation is endemic in tropical countries. Most infections are asymptomatic, but it can produce a wide spectrum of manifestations including hepatobiliary and pancreatic complications. There are reports of association of biliary ascariasis with bilary malignancies in the past, but same is not known for pancreatic ascariasis. We report a case of association of periampullary malignancy with pancreatic ascariasis.
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spelling pubmed-43269952015-02-23 Pancreatic ascariasis with periampullary carcinoma Arulprakash, S Sahu, Manoj Kumar Dutta, Amit Kumar Joseph, A Chandy, George M Trop Parasitol Dispatches Ascarias lumbricoides infestation is endemic in tropical countries. Most infections are asymptomatic, but it can produce a wide spectrum of manifestations including hepatobiliary and pancreatic complications. There are reports of association of biliary ascariasis with bilary malignancies in the past, but same is not known for pancreatic ascariasis. We report a case of association of periampullary malignancy with pancreatic ascariasis. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4326995/ /pubmed/25709954 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5070.145590 Text en Copyright: © Tropical Parasitology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Arulprakash, S
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Pancreatic ascariasis with periampullary carcinoma
title Pancreatic ascariasis with periampullary carcinoma
title_full Pancreatic ascariasis with periampullary carcinoma
title_fullStr Pancreatic ascariasis with periampullary carcinoma
title_full_unstemmed Pancreatic ascariasis with periampullary carcinoma
title_short Pancreatic ascariasis with periampullary carcinoma
title_sort pancreatic ascariasis with periampullary carcinoma
topic Dispatches
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4326995/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25709954
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5070.145590
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