Acute Ascariasis Pancreatitis in Children at the “Nuestra Señora de Chiquinquirá” Hospital, Maracaibo, State of Zulia, Venezuela

• Main Authors: Alirio Quintero Victoria, David Torres Farías, María Villalobos Beuses, María Nápoles, Lesbia Pérez, Rafael Villalobos Perozo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: Universidad del Zulia,Facultad de Medicina,Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Tropicales 2008
• Subjects: Pancreatitis aguda; ascariasis; niños; factores predictivos; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Aguda; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/427caea8d5db4f778b505e52ebc31232

The Acute Pancreatitis is a rare disease in children; their causes depend on the studied population, and are differents in the developed countries and the tropical and habitually underdeveloped countries, where the erratic migration of Ascaris lumbricoides is their main cause (Ascariasis Acute Pancr...