NEW DELHI: Doctors at Delhi's GB Pant Hospital recently removed a six-inch long roundworm from the liver of an 18-month-old infant. He added that in older children, above three years of age, roundworm has been found in liver previously.The first case was reported in Brazil. There, Puri said, the doctors removed the parasite using a paediatric endoscope of 9mm in diameter from the liver of a one and-a-half-year-old patient. "The whole procedure took us 20 minutes. The GB Pant doctors are happy at their feat— they successfully removed a roundworm from a small child's organ using adult endoscope.

Source: Times of India May 15, 2017 21:28 UTC