Biliary ascariasis: radiological clue to diagnosis

Ascariasis is caused by Ascaris lumbricoides. It is the most common helminthic infection seen worldwide. Ascariasis is an endemic disease in our country. This is due to the prevailing poor sanitary conditions and low level of education. Biliary ascariasis is an uncommon cause of obstructive jaundice...

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Autores principales: Sundriyal, Deepak, Bansal, Satish, Kumar, Naveen, Sharma, Navneet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2015
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4664850/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26634136
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omv026
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author Sundriyal, Deepak
Bansal, Satish
Kumar, Naveen
Sharma, Navneet
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description Ascariasis is caused by Ascaris lumbricoides. It is the most common helminthic infection seen worldwide. Ascariasis is an endemic disease in our country. This is due to the prevailing poor sanitary conditions and low level of education. Biliary ascariasis is an uncommon cause of obstructive jaundice. We report a case of biliary ascariasis in a young labourer who presented with acute abdominal pain.
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spelling pubmed-46648502015-12-02 Biliary ascariasis: radiological clue to diagnosis Sundriyal, Deepak Bansal, Satish Kumar, Naveen Sharma, Navneet Oxf Med Case Reports Case Reports Ascariasis is caused by Ascaris lumbricoides. It is the most common helminthic infection seen worldwide. Ascariasis is an endemic disease in our country. This is due to the prevailing poor sanitary conditions and low level of education. Biliary ascariasis is an uncommon cause of obstructive jaundice. We report a case of biliary ascariasis in a young labourer who presented with acute abdominal pain. Oxford University Press 2015-03-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4664850/ /pubmed/26634136 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omv026 Text en © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Sundriyal, Deepak
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Biliary ascariasis: radiological clue to diagnosis
title Biliary ascariasis: radiological clue to diagnosis
title_full Biliary ascariasis: radiological clue to diagnosis
title_fullStr Biliary ascariasis: radiological clue to diagnosis
title_full_unstemmed Biliary ascariasis: radiological clue to diagnosis
title_short Biliary ascariasis: radiological clue to diagnosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4664850/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26634136
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omv026
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