Abstract
We reported a case of gastric anisakiasis taking the course of so-called vanishing tumor of the stomach. The case was a 59-year-old male, who complained of epigastralgia 6 hours after eating Sashimi of Coryhaena hippurus. The first endoscopy taken on Sept. 4, 1984 revealed a big and soft elevated lesion that looked like a top shell at the fornix. At the second endoscopic examination taken 7 days after, the elevated lesion disappeared completely and interestingly an anisakis stung in the same site. We reviewed the relationship between the vanishing tumor of the stomach and the gastric anisakiasis reported in the literature in Japan. As the result, our case was one of the rare case as the vanishing tumor of the stomach that was caused by an anisakis.
