Abstract
A 53-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of upper abdominal pain with urticaria. The patient was diagnosed as having advanced gastric cancer on upper GI endoscopy. Endoscopic examination revealed a tumor with ulceration and edematous marginal swelling at the antrum, and a small worm seemed to be Anisakis larva embedded to the base was found. Anisakis larva was removed with forceps. After this procedure, abdominal pain and urticaria improved in two days. Three weeks later, a distal gastrectomy was performed. A histopathological study of the resected materials disclosed that there was no inflammatory cell infiltration or gronuloma formation due to gastric anisakiasis. This rare case in which Anisakis larva embedded to gastric cancer is reported together with a review of the litarature.
