Gastric wall abscess presenting as thoracic pain: rare presentation of an old disease.
Acute phlegmonous gastritis, a suppurative infection of the gastric wall, has a high mortality rate. This disease remains a mystery to most clinicians. The rarity of this disease and its nonspecific presentation make early diagnosis difficult, especially in the emergency department. We describe a case of acute phlegmonous gastritis presenting as gastric wall abscess in a 55-year-old woman who visited the emergency department, illustrating the severity of this disease, the difficulty in its diagnosis and its unusual presentation.
Department of Emergency and Critical care Medicine (Joaquin Valle Alonso, Juan Jose de la Fuente Carillo, Manuel Angel Gutierrez Solis, Francisco Javier Vara Morate), Hospital Valle de los Pedroches, Pozoblanco, Córdoba, Spain.
Joaquín Valle
JV
Alonso
Department of Emergency and Critical care Medicine (Joaquin Valle Alonso, Juan Jose de la Fuente Carillo, Manuel Angel Gutierrez Solis, Francisco Javier Vara Morate), Hospital Valle de los Pedroches, Pozoblanco, Córdoba, Spain.
Juan Jose
JJ
de la Fuente Carillo
Department of Emergency and Critical care Medicine (Joaquin Valle Alonso, Juan Jose de la Fuente Carillo, Manuel Angel Gutierrez Solis, Francisco Javier Vara Morate), Hospital Valle de los Pedroches, Pozoblanco, Córdoba, Spain.
Manuel Angel
MA
Gutierrez Solis
Department of Emergency and Critical care Medicine (Joaquin Valle Alonso, Juan Jose de la Fuente Carillo, Manuel Angel Gutierrez Solis, Francisco Javier Vara Morate), Hospital Valle de los Pedroches, Pozoblanco, Córdoba, Spain.
Francisco Javier
FJ
Vara Morate
Department of Radiology (Daniel José López Ruiz), Hospital Valle de los Pedroches, Pozoblanco, Córdoba, Spain.
Daniel José
DJ
López Ruiz
CT scan; Suppurative gastritis; gastric abscess