Chronic Gastric Anisakiasis Presenting as Pneumoperitoneum

Typically, the diagnosis of gastric anisakiasis is made at endoscopy with the identification of anisakis larvae. We report a case of gastric anisakiasis presenting as pneumoperitoneum. A 70-year-old Japanese woman was admitted to our hospital with abdominal fullness and pain. Plain chest X-ray in th...

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Main Authors: Yuichiro Ito, Yoshito Ikematsu, Hiroyuki Yuzawa, Yoshirou Nishiwaki, Hideo Kida, Shinji Waki, Masayuki Uchimura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2007-01-01
Series:Asian Journal of Surgery
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1015958409601317