Intestinal anisakiasis with severe intestinal ischemia caused by extraluminal live larvae: a case report

Abstract Background Anisakiasis is a parasitic infection caused by Anisakis worms found in raw fish. Most cases of anisakiasis occur in the stomach and rarely occur in the intestine. It is extremely rare for live larvae to break through the intestine into the mesentery and cause severe intestinal is...

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Main Authors: Kengo Shibata, Yuichi Yoshida, Yoichi Miyaoka, Shin Emoto, Tomoaki Kawai, Seiji Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Ogasawara, Akinobu Taketomi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Japan Surgical Society 2020-10-01
Series:Surgical Case Reports
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40792-020-01033-2
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