Perforated Bowel from Ascariasis: Incidental Finding in an Adolescent with a Penetrating Abdominal Injury

Abstract

A 15year old boy presented to the accident and emergency unit with acute abdomen following penetrating abdominal injury. Emergency exploratory laparatomy revealed penetrating injury to the jejunum, ascaris worm within the peritoneum and ascaris worm milked out of a perforation near the jejuno-duodonal junction. The resected bowel sent to the Pathology laboratory also revealed another worm within the lumen.