S23 ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND / VOLUME 6 / SUPPLEMENT 1 / AUGUST 2017 the absence of ascariasis. There were no complications. Results: EUS features were single or multiple linear hyperechoic structure without acoustic shadowing in the pancreas divisum with central anechoic tube representing alimentary canal of the worm. Live roundworms were removed from papilla without undertaking sphincterotomy. I...

S23 ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND / VOLUME 6 / SUPPLEMENT 1 / AUGUST 2017 the absence of ascariasis. There were no complications. Results: EUS features were single or multiple linear hyperechoic structure without acoustic shadowing in the pancreas divisum with central anechoic tube representing alimentary canal of the worm. Live roundworms were removed from papilla without undertaking sphincterotomy. I...

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A 2-year-old Indian girl was referred with symptoms of biliary colic and obstructive jaundice of 3 weeks’ duration. Abdominal ultrasonography revealed dilation of intrahepatic biliary radicles, a distended gallbladder, and a dilated common bile duct (CBD) of 15mm (normal diameter up to 6mm) containing multiple ill-defined, oval, hyperechoic shadows near the lower end (▶Fig. 1). Magnetic resonan...

A 2-year-old Indian girl was referred with symptoms of biliary colic and obstructive jaundice of 3 weeks’ duration. Abdominal ultrasonography revealed dilation of intrahepatic biliary radicles, a distended gallbladder, and a dilated common bile duct (CBD) of 15mm (normal diameter up to 6mm) containing multiple ill-defined, oval, hyperechoic shadows near the lower end (▶Fig. 1). Magnetic resonan...

A 2-year-old Indian girl was referred with symptoms of biliary colic and obstructive jaundice of 3 weeks’ duration. Abdominal ultrasonography revealed dilation of intrahepatic biliary radicles, a distended gallbladder, and a dilated common bile duct (CBD) of 15mm (normal diameter up to 6mm) containing multiple ill-defined, oval, hyperechoic shadows near the lower end (▶Fig. 1). Magnetic resonan...

A 2-year-old Indian girl was referred with symptoms of biliary colic and obstructive jaundice of 3 weeks’ duration. Abdominal ultrasonography revealed dilation of intrahepatic biliary radicles, a distended gallbladder, and a dilated common bile duct (CBD) of 15mm (normal diameter up to 6mm) containing multiple ill-defined, oval, hyperechoic shadows near the lower end (▶Fig. 1). Magnetic resonan...

To the Editor, The Indian Medical GazETTC. Sir,?The publication in your issue for August 1926 of a case of infection with Ascciris himbricoidcsr Simula ing intestinal obstruction prompts me to send in details of the following case. I was called in on the evening of the 23rd January, 1927 to. see a female Mahommedan patient aged about 23 years. The history given was that three days previously sh...

Helminths infect over 1 billion people worldwide. These intestinal parastic worms cause systemic immunological changes, altering host susceptibility to other infectious diseases and modulating inflammatory responses. Pregnancy similarly alters the immune system, shifting from a type 1 (TH1) proinflammatory response to a type 2 (TH2) anti-inflammatory response, allowing for maternal fetal tolera...