[Biliary ascariasis as complication after cholecystectomy for cholelithiasis]

A B Smits; R A van Hogezand; A B Huisman; I J Hoogendam

[Biliary ascariasis as complication after cholecystectomy for cholelithiasis]

Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 1990 Jul 14;134(28):1369-71.

[Article in Dutch]

Authors

A B Smits¹, R A van Hogezand, A B Huisman, I J Hoogendam

Affiliation

¹ Afd. Heelkunde, Medisch Spectrum Twente, Enschede.

PMID: 2374628

Abstract

A case history of a 39-year-old Turkish female with gallstones is described. Cholecystectomy and choledochotomy were performed. In the postoperative period, the patients was found to have an Ascaris lumbricoides infection. The epidemiology, complications and diagnostics are briefly reviewed.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Ascariasis / complications*
Ascariasis / diagnostic imaging
Ascariasis / drug therapy
Cholecystectomy
Cholelithiasis / complications
Cholelithiasis / diagnostic imaging
Cholelithiasis / surgery*
Common Bile Duct Diseases / complications*
Common Bile Duct Diseases / diagnostic imaging
Female
Humans
Mebendazole / therapeutic use
Radiography

Substances

Mebendazole