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Eerie ultrasound uncovers squirming parasitic worms as source of man’s abdominal pain – 7NEWS.com.au

Doctors conducting an ultrasound of the man’s abdomen noticed a ‘tubular … structure that moved with a curling motion’.

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November 24, 2020

A 20-year-old man admitted to hospital after complaining of abdominal pain has learned that he had been harbouring parasitic worms after an ultrasound revealed the macabre find.
Medical experts writing in the New England Journal of Medicine said the man from New Delhi, India, had been admitted to hospital complaining of abdominal pain, diarrhoea and vomiting.
According to the journal, thats where doctors conducting an ultrasound of the mans abdomen noticed a tubular structure that moved with a curling…

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