1Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan
2Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan
Received date: Feburary 22, 2016;Accepted date: Feburary 24, 2016; Published date: Feburary 26, 2016
Citation: Hsieh MS, Fang-Jung Yu, Wen-Hung Hsu, Chien-Yu Lu (2016) An Unusual Duodenal Visitor. J Gastrointest Dig Syst 6:i105. doi:10.4172/2161-069X.1000i105
Copyright: © 2016 Hsieh MS, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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A 55-year-old male patient had peptic ulcer history with regular follow-up. This time, an upper endoscopy was performed due to abdominal discomfort. Interestingly, an insect was found in the duodenal bulb (Figure 1), and on close-up view, it was consistent with the structure of a mosquito (Figure 2). After the literature review, it was found that few cases of finding insects in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract have been described. Cockroaches [1], ants [2,3] and bees [4] have been reported; however, our case is the first reporting any insect in the duodenum and the first reporting a mosquito in the GI tract. The patient lived by a fish farm with a humid environment for mosquitoes to breed and most likely swallowed the mosquito unintentionally. Mosquitoes are more fragile than other reported insects and easily damaged in the swallowing process. Consequently, it is rare to see a complete mosquito within the GI tract.
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