Acta Med. 2007, 50: 155-156

https://doi.org/10.14712/18059694.2017.74

Fasciola Hepatica Case with Hemobilia

Ibrahim Halil Bahçecıoğlu, Hüseyin Ataseven, Erhan Aygen, Serdar Coskun, Nalan Kuzu, Fulya Ilhan

Firat University, Faculty of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of General Surgery, Internal Medicine and Immunology, Elazig, Turkey

Received April 1, 2007
Accepted May 1, 2007

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