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Emphysematous gastritis is associated with infectious gastritis produced by gas-forming organisms and with noninfectious gastric necrosis, most often secondary to corrosive ingestion. A new case of infectious emphysematous gastritis is reported secondary to disseminated stronglyoidiasis. This case is unique in that the intramural emphysema developed due to diffuse necrosis of the gastric mucosa caused by the filariform larvae ofStrongyloides stercoralis rather than by infection of the gastric wall with gasforming organisms.
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Williford, M.E., Foster, W.L., Halvorsen, R.A. et al. Emphysematous gastritis secondary to disseminated stronglyloidiasis. Gastrointest Radiol 7, 123–126 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01887624
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