Acute airway obstruction due to Ascaris Lumbricoides in a ventilated child
Ascaris lumbricoides or roundworm is a nematode causing infestation in about 1.3 billion people worldwide. We report a case of a 7-year-old patient who had head injury. He was admitted to the intensive care unit for mechanical ventilation after craniotomy and evacuation of extradural haemorrhage at...
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Faculty of Medicine, International Islamic University Malaysia
2002
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/312/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/312/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/312/1/airway_obstruction_due_to_ascaris.pdf |