New Year's silent killer in Japan: Undigested mochi.
Koki KawanishiYoshifumi IkedaPublished in: Clinical case reports (2022)
Swallowed rice cake (mochi) without chewing retained in the stomach intactly. We successfully treated the hardened mochi without surgery. Eye-catching images showed as many as 10 intact mochi in the stomach and endoscopic crushing procedure.