Enterobius vermicularis presentation during laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Enterobius vermicularis infection is uncommon in adults, compared to children, and rarely causes significant illness. Adult infection is usually colonic in nature and found incidentally at colonoscopy. Worm migration to other tissues is rare. We here-in describe the case of a 73-year-old woman found...

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Autores principales: Dick, Lachlan, Hannay, Jonathan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5241814/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28096322
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjw239
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description Enterobius vermicularis infection is uncommon in adults, compared to children, and rarely causes significant illness. Adult infection is usually colonic in nature and found incidentally at colonoscopy. Worm migration to other tissues is rare. We here-in describe the case of a 73-year-old woman found to have biliary tree E. vermicularis—an as yet undescribed site of migration.
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spelling pubmed-52418142017-01-23 Enterobius vermicularis presentation during laparoscopic cholecystectomy Dick, Lachlan Hannay, Jonathan J Surg Case Rep Case Report Enterobius vermicularis infection is uncommon in adults, compared to children, and rarely causes significant illness. Adult infection is usually colonic in nature and found incidentally at colonoscopy. Worm migration to other tissues is rare. We here-in describe the case of a 73-year-old woman found to have biliary tree E. vermicularis—an as yet undescribed site of migration. Oxford University Press 2017-01-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5241814/ /pubmed/28096322 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjw239 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author 2017. 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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title_full Enterobius vermicularis presentation during laparoscopic cholecystectomy
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title_short Enterobius vermicularis presentation during laparoscopic cholecystectomy
title_sort enterobius vermicularis presentation during laparoscopic cholecystectomy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5241814/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28096322
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