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CASE REPORT
Year : 2012  |  Volume : 3  |  Issue : 2  |  Page : 143-146

Perforated bowel from ascariasis: Incidental finding in an adolescent with a penetrating abdominal injury


Department of Pathology, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Shika- Zaria 810001, Nigeria

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U Mohammed
Department of Pathology, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria. 810001
Nigeria
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A 15year old boy presented to the accident and emergency unit with acute abdomen following penetrating abdominal injury. Emergency exploratory laparatomy revealed penetrating injury to the jejunum, ascaris worm within the peritoneum and ascaris worm milked out of a perforation near the jejuno-duodonal junction. The resected bowel sent to the Pathology laboratory also revealed another worm within the lumen.


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