Postoperative biliary ascariasis: presentation and management--experience.
Subsequent to preoperative and perioperative indications the common bile duct was explored in 705 patients over a 12-year period, from January 1983 to December 1994. Consequent postoperative T-tube cholangiography revealed the presence of worms in 22 patients. Expulsion of the worms followed T-tube irrigation with 0.9% normal saline in 18 patients. Only one patient had to be reexplored to remove the ascaris. In two patients the worm was removed along with the T-tube, and in one patient the worm came out through the T-tube tract.
Wani
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Department of General Surgery, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, India.
Shah
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Naqash
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D001196:Ascariasis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D001660:Biliary Tract Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000601:surgery*; D002758:Cholangiography; D006801:Humans; D011446:Prospective Studies