Image Case: Ascaris Worm Extraction During Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy | ||
| Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases | ||
| Article 7, Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 55-55 PDF (162.23 K) | ||
| Document Type: Images in Infectious and Endemic Diseases | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/aeji.2012.15605 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Mohamed H Emara; Ibrahim M Ibrahim | ||
| Tropical Medicine Department , Faculty of Medicine , Zagazig University,Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Nematode infection including Ascariais is a worldwide infection [1,2]. Nematode infection in particular ancylostomiasis and ascariasis have long been prevalent in Egypt and trials to trace this infection goes back to Lord Kitehenere in 1913 [3]. Although the decline in the incidence of this form of infection in Egypt, due to application of good hygienic techniques, mass and effective treatment ……etc, we reported a 55 years old male patient with chronic hepatitis C virus infection, nonresponder to pegylated interferon therapy complained from persistent epigastric pain and was non-responder to multiple courses of proton pump inhibitors. We decided to examine this patient by upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, where this long white worm was seen in the duodenum ; extraction by biopsy forceps was done. | ||
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