Colonic anisakiasis: an exceptional presentation

Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine 2020; 6: e615
DOI: 10.32113/idtm_20206_615

  Topic: Parasitic diseases     Category:

Abstract

Anisakiasis is a worldwide parasitic disease with 90% of reported cases in Japan. Here we present the case of a Spanish 55 years-old male patient with acute abdominal pain in the right hypochondrium. The final diagnosis was infectious right colitis caused by Anisakis.

To cite this article

Colonic anisakiasis: an exceptional presentation

Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine 2020; 6: e615
DOI: 10.32113/idtm_20206_615

Publication History

Submission date: 09 Feb 2020

Revised on: 03 Mar 2020

Accepted on: 24 Apr 2020

Published online: 08 Jun 2020