A unique cause of chronic abdominal pain.

Yujiro KawakamiKotaro AkitaKazuya SuzukiHiroshi Nakase

Published in: JGH open : an open access journal of gastroenterology and hepatology (2020)

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.

Keyphrases

abdominal pain
computed tomography
dual energy
image quality
contrast enhanced
positron emission tomography
deep learning
convolutional neural network
energy transfer
magnetic resonance imaging
optical coherence tomography
case report
machine learning
cross sectional