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| Year : 2013 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 23-24 |
Biliary fascioliasis: Management in a child using endoscopic retrograde cholangio pancreatography
Sandesh V Parelkar1, Sanjay N Oak1, Amit Maydeo2, Beejal V Sanghvi1, Prashant B Joshi1, Nitin Chaubal3, Rajasekhara T Patil4, Subrat K Sahoo1, Patel Jiwan Lal1, Nandita Sampath1, Avani Koticha4
1 Department of Pediatric Surgery, Seth G. S. Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India
2 Department of Gastroenterology, Baldota Institute of Digestive Sciences, Global Hospital, Mumbai, India
3 Department of Radiology, Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai, and Thane Ultrasound Centre, Thane, India
4 Department of Microbiology, Seth G. S. Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India
Correspondence Address:
Sandesh V Parelkar
Department of Pediatric Surgery, King Edward Memorial Hospital, E. Borges Road, Parel, Mumbai - 400 012
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0971-9261.107012
A 9-year-old boy presented with right upper abdominal pain and fever. The radiologic investigations revealed multiple cholangitic abscesses with cholangitis and worms in common bile duct. Endoscopic retrograde cholangio pancreatographic (ERCP) sphincterotomy, basketing, ballooning and extraction of Fasciola hepatica worms from the common bile duct were done.
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