A unique cause of chronic abdominal pain
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Yujiro Kawakami; Kotaro Akita; Kazuya Suzuki; Hiroshi Nakase
- Source
- JGH Open: An Open Access Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Hepatology
biology
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Brief Report
capsule endoscopy
Gastroenterology
computed tomography
Computed tomography
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
law.invention
ascariasis
Capsule endoscopy
law
Ascariasis
parasite
medicine
Brief Reports
Chronic abdominal pain
Radiology
Ascaris lumbricoides
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 2397-9070
The images presented here demonstrated how we arrived at the diagnosis of Ascaris lumbricoides infection in a 54‐year‐old man with chronic abdominal pain by capsule endoscopy (CE). In this case, computed tomography (CT) images were not representative, and further investigation with CE was required to confirm the diagnosis. The combination of CT and CE was useful for diagnosing Ascaris lumbricoides infection in this patient.