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Preoperative sonographic diagnosis of acute appendicitis caused byAscaris lumbricoides

✍ Scribed by Misra, Sri Prakash; Dwivedi, Manisha; Misra, Vatsala; Singh, Premala Anthony; Agarwal, Vinay K.

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 246 KB
Volume: 27
Category: Article
ISSN: 0091-2751
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0096(199902)27:2<96::aid-jcu10>3.0.co;2-a

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✦ Synopsis

Acute appendicitis caused by Ascaris lumbricoides is an uncommon variant of a common disease. We describe a case in which sonography was used for preoperative diagnosis of ascaris appendicitis.