- 著者
- Koichi Soga Junichi Sakagami Osamu Handa Hideyuki Konishi Naoki Wakabayashi Nobuaki Yagi Minoru Yamada Satoshi Kokura Yuji Naito Toshikazu Yoshikawa Naoki Arizono
- 出版者
- 一般社団法人 日本内科学会
- 雑誌
- Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.50, no.4, pp.325-327, 2011 (Released:2011-02-15)
- 参考文献数
- 13
- 被引用文献数
- 3 6
We present the case of a patient who was referred to our hospital after she reported having passed a long, whitish object per rectum. Accordingly, capsule endoscopy was performed using the PillCam® SB video capsule. A tapeworm of the species Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense was detected; it appeared to be freely floating and unfolded in the jejunum and sometimes tangled or irregularly folded in the ileum. The stretching of the strobila by strong peristalsis in the ileum may have resulted in the separation of the caudal portion of the strobila, which descended into the colon and was eventually passed per rectum.