Abstract
More than a billion people worldwide are infected with one or more species of intestinal nematodes. The ascariasis is one of the roundworm parasites more common seen of human being and it is calculated that the world population's fourth part is infected. Although that the clinical pictures of this illness courses mostly with silent form or chronic symptomatology, the massive infestation in children can give place to serious complications that require surgical urgency attention for experts. The report of a patient of pediatric age is presented with an operative diagnosis of intestinal obstruction for massive ascariasis that required emergency surgical treatment with a favorable evolution. By means of enterotomy overwhelming quantity of ascaris were extracted.
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