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Vanishing tumor of the stomach
A previously healthy Japanese 36-year-old man presented to the gastroenterology department with a 2-day history of acute-onset severe epigastric pain after eating flounder sashimi. His vital signs were normal. Emergency endoscopy showed a submucosal tumor-like lesion with mild erosions in the upper body of the stomach (Fig. 1, Panel A). Further observation revealed a whitish linear worm penetrating the mucosa at the edge of the lesion (Fig. 1, Panels B and C). What is the diagnosis?A young man with acute onset epigastric pain after the ingestion of Japanese sushi
A 32-year-old man presented to the author's hospital with a 1-day history of acute onset epigastric pain after the ingestion of Japanese sushi (bite-sized pieces of cold cooked rice topped with fish, eggs, or vegetables and wrapped in seaweed). The patient had no medical history, and the patient's vital signs were normal. Emergency endoscopy revealed a whitish linear worm penetrating into the mucosa in the gastric corpus (Fig. 1, Panel A). What is the diagnosis?
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