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Parasitic infections of the GastroIntestinal tract and infectious enteritis are common clinical conditions. Most of them present with abdominal pain and hence sonography is requested. In this chapter sonographic features of these conditions are described.
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Boopathy Vijayaraghavan, S. (2012). Amoebic, Ascariasis and Other Parasitic Enteritis. In: Maconi, G., Bianchi Porro, G. (eds) Ultrasound of the Gastrointestinal Tract. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2012_662
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