Incidental diagnosis of oxyuriasis through a colonoscopy
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Shigekazu Iguchi *, Yuji Hirai , Yusuke Ainoda , Noriko Isoda , Hitomi Miura , Hiroto Egawa , Masakazu Yamamoto , Ken Kikuchi a Department of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan Department of Hematology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan Department of Clinical Laboratory, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan d Institute of Gastroenterology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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