title: A case of submucosal hematoma of the esophagus and stomach, possibly caused by fish bone ingestion.
abstract: Submucosal hematoma of the esophagus is a rare disorder. We encountered a 70-year-old woman with an extremely large submucosal hematoma of the esophagus that extended from the cervical esophagus to the gastric angle. It was likely that her hematoma was caused by accidental ingestion of a fish bone, and her condition improved with conservative treatment alone. In this article, we summarize the reported cases of submucosal hematoma of the esophagus in Japan, and discuss the case with a review of the literature.
authors.affiliation: Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa, 259-1193 Japan. jkoike@is.icc.u-tokai.ac.jp
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Koike
authors.forename: Masashi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Matsushima
authors.forename: Hiromichi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Teraoka
authors.forename: Muneki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Igarashi
authors.forename: Ryuzou
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Deguchi
authors.forename: Takayoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Takayuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shirai
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mine
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001842:Bone and Bones; D004945:Esophagoscopy; D004947:Esophagus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D005399:Fishes / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D005547:Foreign Bodies; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000473:pathology*; D006406:Hematoma / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed