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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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Gastrointestinal Bezoars in Children: Clinical Characteristics, Contributing Factors, and Treatment Outcomes. [PDF]
Children (Basel)Background/Objectives: Bezoars are described as masses of undigested substances that can be found within the gastrointestinal tract. This study aimed to explore the types of bezoars observed in pediatric patients and examine the underlying factors ...
Lin CY +7 more
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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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Journal of Minimal Access Surgery, 2023 Bezoar without gastrointestinal surgical history occurring simultaneously in the gastric and duodenal lumen is very rare. We report a case of acute pancreatitis due to duodenal obstruction caused by two large bezoars.
Kang Won Lee +5 more
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Case report of a gastric bezoar causing anterograde gastroduodenal intussusception requiring surgical intervention in a 15‐year‐old female [PDF]
JPGN Reports, EarlyView.Abstract Gastroduodenal bezoars are masses of indigestible material that accumulate within the stomach and may lead to obstruction. We present a young female who presented with abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting, and was found to have a large gastric bezoar extending into the duodenum, resulting in gastroduodenal intussusception.
Olga Ostrovetsky +8 more
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Fungal Bezoars of the Upper Urinary Tract [PDF]
Journal of Urology, 1990 We report our experience with 6 cases of upper tract fungal bezoars involving 9 renal units-3 bilateral aspergillomas and 3 Candida bezoars. The Aspergillus bezoars were notably more morbid: 2 patients required nephrectomy after failure of medical ...
J W McAninch
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Application of a novel endoscopic device in treatment of gastric bezoars: Pilot study. [PDF]
Endosc Int OpenGastric bezoars, especially phytobezoars, are often challenging to treat due to their large size, hardness, and poor response to conventional endoscopic methods, frequently necessitating surgery.
Xu J +8 more
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Plastic Bezoars—A Unique Introduction in Bezoars Family [PDF]
Indian Journal of Surgery, 2011 Bezoars are rare entities in medical science. Basically, they are of four types: trichobezoars; phytobezoars, pharmacobezoars, and lactobezoars. Some rare types of bezoars are also known. In this article a unique case of plastic bezoars is presented. It was diagnosed preoperatively by esophagogastroduodenoscopy and was removed surgically.
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Extensive Urinary Tract Fungal Bezoars Causing Anuria: A Case Report
Clinical Medicine Insights: Case Reports, 2023 Fungal bezoar formation is a complication of fungal urinary tract infections that are usually caused by Candida species and other fungal types. They can form in any site along the urinary tract and may cause an obstruction to the urine flow that would ...
Adel Alrabadi, Hosam Masadeh
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