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Ectopic ascariasis: an unusual case of pyopneumothorax
M K Sen1, S Chakrabarti, U C Ojha
1Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi.
The Indian Journal of Chest Diseases & Allied Sciences
|October 17, 1998
Abstract:
A patient of tuberculous pyopneumothroax with broncho-pleural fistula in whom a mature roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides migrated from the intestine to lodge itself in the pleural cavity is being reported.