ArticleInternational journal of surgery case reports2019
Surgical treatment of gastric outlet obstruction from a large trichobezoar: A case report.
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- Gastrointestinal bezoars: two distinct cases illustrating diagnostic and surgical challenges.International journal of surgery case reports · 2026Article
- Case Report on Rapunzel syndrome: a large gastric trichobezoar extending to the proximal jejunum in a young adult female.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Rapunzel Syndrome: Clinical, Diagnostic and Forensic Aspects in Related Deaths-A Review of the Literature.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Giant Gastric Trichobezoar: Unveiling the Complexity of a 14-Year-Old's Abdominal Pain.Case reports in surgery · 2024Article
- A huge abdominal mass revealing a depressive syndrome.Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England · 2021Article
- A Simple Method for Endoscopic Treatment of Large Gastric Phytobezoars: "Hand-Made Bezoaratome".The Turkish journal of gastroenterology : the official journal of Turkish Society of Gastroenterology · 2021Article
- Trichobezoar without a clear manifestation of trichotillomania.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2020Article
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Abstract
introductionBezoars are concretions of foreign indigestible material accumulating in the gastrointestinal tract leading to intraluminal mass formation that impairs the gastrointestinal motility and can lead to gastric obstruction of the small or the large bowel. There are different types of bezoars, named according to the material they are made of. These include phytobezoar, lactobezoar, pharmacobezoar, trichobezoar, and polybezoar. Trichobezoars (hair ball) are usually located in the stomach but may extend through the pylorus into the duodenum and small bowel (Rapunzel syndrome). CASE PRESENTATION: Herein, we report a case of a young adult female known to have a long-standing trichophagia who presented with gastric outlet obstruction due to a large trichobezoar. Endoscopy revealed a large and hard gastric trichobezoar not amenable to endoscopic retrieval leading to surgical extraction as a last resort. DISCUSSION: They are almost always associated with trichotillomania and trichophagia or other psychiatric disorders. Trichobezoar can be treated either surgically by laparotomy/laparoscopy or by endoscopic intervention.
conclusionTreatment should be coupled to psychiatric evaluation and therapy to prevent recurrence.
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