Intestinal perforation in ascariasis--case reports.

Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg

Published: October 1979

Two cases of intestinal perforation in association with ascariasis are described. In both cases adult ascarids were found either in the gut or lying free in the peritoneal cavity. Neither patient had typhoid fever, one had Hodgkin's lymphoma. The authors believe that the perforation were directly caused by the ascarids. Both patients died.

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