Intestinal anisakiasis with severe intestinal ischemia caused by extraluminal live larvae: a case report
Published in Surgical Case Reports
BackgroundAnisakiasis 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 ischemia. Anisakiasis can be treated conservatively, because t...
