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Evaluation of the living conditions of a significant subgroup of our patients confirms that intestinal parasitism is an endemic condition prevailing in nations that exhibit deep social and economic imbalance, where large sectors of the population remain deprived of the basic services of education, health, housing, and recreation<\/jats:bold>\n                    .\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    <jats:bold>Massive infestation in children may give rise to grave complications that demand expert surgical care. Third World surgeons practicing in general hospitals that take care of patients of low economic capacity are usually familiar with the diagnosis and management of this pathology; surgeons who practice in the industrialized nations will only occasionally face such problems. The greater mobility of today's societies and the rather massive migrations that take place in current times have resulted in an increasing incidence of these entities in the hospital populations of the large urban centers of these nations. It is for the surgeons practicing in such centers that the information presented herein may be of greater value<\/jats:bold>\n                    .\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1007\/bf01659056","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2005,5,8]],"date-time":"2005-05-08T08:56:40Z","timestamp":1115542600000},"page":"222-227","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":58,"title":["Surgical complications of ascariasis"],"prefix":"10.1002","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Bernardo","family":"Ochoa","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery Division of P\u00e9diatric Surgery University of Antioquia School of Medicine Medell\u00edn Colombia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[1991,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_1_2_1","volume-title":"Prasitismo Intestinal, Investigaci\u00f3n Nacional de Morbilidad, Ministerio de Salud P\u00fablica","author":"Gal\u00e1n R.","year":"1969"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_3_1","volume-title":"Abdomen Agudo en la Edad Pedi\u00e1trica, Minutas del Primer Congreso Colombiano y Tercero Latinoamericano de Cirug\u00eda Pedi\u00e1trica","author":"Ochoa B.","year":"1970"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_4_1","first-page":"175","article-title":"Symposium on amebiasis: A new look at an old disease","volume":"3","author":"Post J.","year":"1981","journal-title":"Bull. 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