[PDF][PDF] A case of biliary ascariasis accompanied by cholelithiasis

MH Choi, IA Park, IK Hong, JY Chai, SH Lee - Korean J Parasitol, 1993 - parasitol.kr
A 43-year—old Korean woman with biliary ascariasis accompanied by cholelithiasis is
reported. Her chief complaints were abdominal pain. nausea, and vomiting. She had the
past history of several attacks of abdominal pain in her childhood. Biliary stones were
recovered from the left hepatic duct after cholecystectomy, which contained degenerated
cuticle or body wall, and numerOus eggs of Ascaris lumbricoides. It is strongly suggested
that the biliary stones were formed from the dead Ascaris worm (s). This is a rare case of …