ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Parasitic diseases
Helminthiases
Diseases due to trematodes
1F81 — Dicrocoeliasis
ICD-11 1F81 — Dicrocoeliasis
A disease caused by an infection with the parasitic worm Dicrocoelium dendriticum. This disease is commonly asymptomatic. This disease may present with cholecystitis, liver abscesses, or upper abdominal pain. Transmission is by ingestion of infected ants. Confirmation is by identification of Dicrocoelium dendriticum eggs in a faecal sample or duodenal fluid.
It includes 1 item.
- Lancet fluke infection
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.