TY - JOUR ID - 16677 TI - A Rare Case of Intestinal Obstruction due to Taenia Saginata JO - Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences JA - JKMU LA - en SN - 1023-9510 AU - Lashkarizadeh, M.R AU - Pourseyedi, B AU - Samareh Fekri, M AU - Aghaei Afshar, M AD - Assistant Professor of Surgery, School of Medicine, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran AD - Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Physiology Research Center & Afzalipour School of Medicine, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran Y1 - 2010 PY - 2010 VL - 17 IS - 1 SP - 89 EP - 93 KW - Intestinal obstruction KW - Taenia saginata DO - N2 - Intestinal obstruction may be duo to various mechanical or functional reasons. Worms, especially Ascaris worms are one of the mechanical reasons of intestinal obstruction. Obstruction due to Taenia saginata is a rare phenomenon. Here we report a case of intestinal obstruction due to Taenia saginata infection in a 30 year-old male patient undergoing laparatomy with the diagnosis of intestinal obstruction. The cause of intestinal obstruction was unknown initially, but during milking of intestinal contents through naso- gastric tube a Taenia saginata worm was accidentally detected in the tube. UR - https://jkmu.kmu.ac.ir/article_16677.html L1 - https://jkmu.kmu.ac.ir/article_16677_46d12099321151c35744199ed6d0df33.pdf ER -