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A Single-center 12-year Experience of Patients with Gastrointestinal Bezoars
The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology, 2023 Background/Aims: Gastrointestinal (GI) bezoars are relatively rare diseases with clinical characteristics and treatment modalities that depend on the location of the bezoars.
Woo Rim Kang +6 more
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Clinical Case Reports, 2023 Key Clinical Message Bezoars can cause gastrointestinal obstruction and may require surgery. Surgery carries the risk of complications. Medical professionals should perform detailed history in diet and behaviors for patients presenting with abdominal ...
Shannon D. Powell, Nicholas Pereira
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Valuable stones: The trade in porcupine bezoars
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020 Old-world porcupines (Order: Rodentia Family: Hystricidae) face many threats, including an increasing demand for their different body parts such as meat, quills, hairs and bezoars.
Sarah Heinrich +2 more
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Gastroenterology Review, 2016 Bezoar is the accumulation and mass formation of indigestible materials inside the gastrointestinal tract on account of several factors. Bezoars are relatively infrequent, with a reported incidence of 0.07% to 0.4% [1].
Akbulut, S +3 more
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Nasogastric Tube Feeding-Induced Esophageal Bezoar: Case Description [PDF]
Case Reports in Medicine, 2017 Background. Bezoars are well established entities causing gastrointestinal obstructions. Depending on the prominent constituent of these bezoars, the latter are divided into four subtypes: pharmacobezoars, lactobezoars, trichobezoars, and phytobezoars ...
Jad A. Degheili +2 more
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Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2012 Introduction. Trichobezoars are foreign bodies in gastrointestinal tract, composed of hair. They occur mainly in children and adolescents suffering from trichotillophagia.
Petrović Gordana +5 more
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Huge plastic bezoar: a rare cause of gastrointestinal obstruction [PDF]
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2015 Bezoars are rare causes of gastrointestinal obstruction. Basically, they are of four types: trichobezoars, phytobezoars, pharmacobezoars, and lactobezoars. Some rare types of bezoars are also known.
Mbarek Yaka +3 more
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Laparoscopically Treated Giant Gastric Bezoar Complicated with Large Ulcer in Young Patient [PDF]
Lietuvos Chirurgija, 2021 Gastric bezoars are rare but well known intraluminal formations in the gastrointestinal system. Reports for gastric bezoar treatment include dissolution, endoscopic retrieval and surgery (open and laparoscopic).
Cemal Ulusoy +4 more
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Gastroenterology Research and Practice, 2016 Bezoars are relatively rare foreign bodies of gastrointestinal tract and often cause ileus and ulcerative lesions in the stomach and subsequent bleeding and perforation due to their size and stiffness.
Kohei Ogawa +14 more
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Small Bowel Obstruction Caused by Aloe vera Bezoars: A Case Report
The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology, 2017 Small bowel obstruction is a clinical condition commonly caused by postoperative adhesion, volvulus, intussusceptions, and hernia. Small bowel obstruction due to bezoars is clinically uncommon, accounting for approximately 2-4% of all obstructions ...
In Taik Hong +7 more
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