Abstract

POLANIA-LISCANO, Héctor Adolfo; JIMENEZ-SANCHEZ, Héctor Conrado  and  POLANIA-GALINDO, David José. Endoscopic ultrasound for the diagnosis of biliary ascariasis: case report and literature review. Rev. colomb. Gastroenterol. [online]. 2020, vol.35, n.4, pp.537-541.  Epub July 12, 2021. ISSN 0120-9957.  https://doi.org/10.22516/25007440.410.

The following is a case of biliary ascariasis (BA), whose clinical presentation was obstructive jaundice, accompanied by abdominal pain due to acute pancreatitis. At first, clinical suspicion led to consider a stone etiology, for which diagnostic imaging studies were performed, evidencing BA as an incidental finding diagnosed by endoscopic biliopancreatic ultrasonography (EBU), which was confirmed and treated using endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP).

Keywords : Biliary ascariasis; Obstructive jaundice; Abdominal pain; Acute pancreatitis; Lithiasic etiology.

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