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Chewing gum bezoar in a pediatric patient
JEM Reports, 2023 Background: A bezoar is a collection of indigestible material found in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract that has become large enough not to progress through the rest of the intestinal system.
Chizite Iheonunekwu +4 more
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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.
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Endoscopic Treatment of Gastric Bezoars: A Report of Three Cases [PDF]
The Korean Journal of Helicobacter and Upper Gastrointestinal ResearchBezoars, including phytobezoars, trichobezoars, and pharmacobezoars, are accumulations of undigested substances in the gastrointestinal tract. We report three cases of gastric bezoars.
Younghee Choe +2 more
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International Journal of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 2020 Gastric bezoar is an accumulation of indigestible masses in stomach. Depending on the composites of these masses, descriptive names are given like tricobezoar if the mass contains hair. Most of the patients have psychological issues that result in their desire to eat hair which predispose them to have gastric tricobezoar ...
Sulaiman Ambusaidi, Farida Mohsin +1 more
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CT Findings of Patients with Small Bowel Obstruction due to Bezoar: A Descriptive Study
The Scientific World Journal, 2013 Purpose. The aim of this study was to present the computed tomography (CT) findings of bezoars that cause obstruction in the small bowel and to emphasize that some CT findings can be considered specific to some bezoar types. Materials and Methods.
Fatih Altintoprak +7 more
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Nasogastric Tube Feeding-Induced Esophageal Bezoar: Case Description
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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Journal of British Surgery, 1994 Abstract Of 99 patients with 117 gastrointestinal bezoars, 69 had undergone previous surgery, the most common operation being bilateral truncal vagotomy with pyloroplasty (55 patients). An excessive intake of vegetable fibre was found in 38 patients and poor mastication in 27.
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Case Reports in Gastroenterology, 2017 Gastric bezoars are rare and are usually found incidentally. They can sometimes cause severe complications, including gastric outlet obstruction (GOO) or gastric pneumatosis (GP).
Hirokazu Honda +4 more
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Life, 2021 The clinical course of Crohn’s disease (CD) is often complicated by intestinal strictures, which can be fibrotic, inflammatory, or mixed, therefore leading to stenosis and eventually symptomatic obstruction.
Emanuele Sinagra +15 more
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Huge plastic bezoar: a rare cause of gastrointestinal obstruction
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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