New Year's silent killer in Japan: Undigested mochi

Koki Kawanishi; Yoshifumi Ikeda

doi:10.1002/ccr3.6682

Clinical Case Reports (Dec 2022)

New Year's silent killer in Japan: Undigested mochi

Koki Kawanishi,
Yoshifumi Ikeda

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Koki Kawanishi: Department of Gastroenterology Nate Hospital Kinokawa Japan
Yoshifumi Ikeda: Department of Gastroenterology Nate Hospital Kinokawa Japan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6682
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 12
pp. n/a – n/a

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Abstract Swallowed rice cake (mochi) without chewing retained in the stomach intactly. We successfully treated the hardened mochi without surgery. Eye‐catching images showed as many as 10 intact mochi in the stomach and endoscopic crushing procedure.

Published in Clinical Case Reports

ISSN: 2050-0904 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General)
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/20500904

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