A unique cause of chronic abdominal pain

Yujiro Kawakami; Kotaro Akita; Kazuya Suzuki; Hiroshi Nakase

doi:10.1002/jgh3.12419

A unique cause of chronic abdominal pain

JGH Open. 2020 Sep 16;4(6):1236-1237. doi: 10.1002/jgh3.12419. eCollection 2020 Dec.

Authors

Yujiro Kawakami^{1

2}, Kotaro Akita², Kazuya Suzuki², Hiroshi Nakase¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine Sapporo Japan.
² Department of Gastroenterology Kushiro City General Hospital Kushiro Japan.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: ascariasis; capsule endoscopy; computed tomography; parasite.