title: [A young man with parasites during surgery].
abstract: An 18-year-old man came to the Emergency Room at the Academic Hospital Paramaribo (Suriname) with a solitary supra-umbilical gunshot-wound. The patient was hypovolemic, with dropping blood pressure and rising pulse, surgery was indicated. After incision of the abdominal midline 1.5 l of blood drained, immediately followed by the appearance of 2 long thin worms. During inspection of the abdominal cavity a perforation of the duodenum and sigmoid and a mesenterial bleeding was seen and treated. Inspection of the small intestine showed presence of Ascaris lumbricoides (roundworm).
authors.affiliation: Academisch Ziekenhuis, afd. Chirurgie, Paramaribo, Suriname. k.klop@erasmusmc.nl
authors.forename: Karel W J
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Klop
authors.forename: Armand R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: van Kanten
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000818:Animals; D000969:Antinematodal Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001196:Ascariasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery; D017164:Ascaris lumbricoides / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008463:Mebendazole / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery
chemical_list: D000969:Antinematodal Agents; D008463:Mebendazole