Wataru Ujita, Kensuke Takuma, Moeko Namiki, Koji Watanabe, Yuto Yamada, Seiichi Hara, Yui Kishimoto, Ken Ito, Naoki Okano, Yoshinori Igarashi
A 38-year-old woman was referred to our department to investigate epigastric discomfort. Laboratory studies showed increases in the peripheral white blood cell count and the level of C-reactive protein. Abdominal computed tomography depicted inflammation and a mass in the horizontal part of the duodenum. To observe it directly, we performed esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD), but it was very difficult to reach the lesion. Therefore, we performed enteroscopy by using SIF-H290S (Olympus Europa SE & Co. KG, Hamburg, Germany), which revealed a diverticulum containing food residue in the horizontal part of the duodenum...
2021: Nihon Shokakibyo Gakkai Zasshi, the Japanese Journal of Gastro-enterology