Obstrucción intestinal por Ascaris lumbricoides en un adulto mayor

Intestinal obstruction caused by Ascaris lumbricoides.

PURPOSE The aim of this study is to present patients, to discuss causes of morbidity and mortality, and to ascertain prognostic indexes and therapeutic options influencing outcome of patients with intestinal obstruction caused by Ascaris lumbricoides. MATERIALS AND METHODS During the past 20 years, between 1975 and 1995, a total of 17 patients with intestinal obstruction attributable to A. lu...

Ascaris Lumbricoides

Intestinal and biliary infection with Ascaris lumbricoides in gastrointestinal endoscopy.

A Case of Acute Intestinal Obstruction Caused by Ascaris Lumbricoides

Assistant Surgeon, Main Hospital, Raipur. On the morning of the 9th March, 1926, a Mohammedan boy about 3 years old was brought to the outdoor department of the Main Hospital, Raipur, for severe abdominal pain. The history given was that two days before he developed high fever and next day vomited twice. On the morning of admission he was suddenly attacked with acute pain in the abdomen and had...

Ascaris lumbricoides--the ubiquitous roundworm.