An Unusual Cause of Small Bowel Obstruction in a Child: Ingested Rhubarb
Case Reports in Surgery, 2013 Small bowel obstruction is rarely caused by bezoars concretions formed from undigested foreign material in the gastrointestinal tract. An important cause of bezoars is phytobezoars, formed from vegetables or fruits.
Miguel Glatstein +4 more
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Giant Gastric Trichobezoar: A Case Report of an Adolescent Girl. [PDF]
Clin Case RepABSTRACT A rare case of gastric trichobezoar associated with trichotillomania and trichophagia emphasizes the need for careful psychiatric evaluation and early imaging of such patients to ensure timely surgical intervention to prevent severe complications.
Irshad S +4 more
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Moving in a Hierarchized Landscape Changing Border Regimes in Central Kalimantan [PDF]
, 2011 Transnational mobility is a common feature among borderland communities. Central Borneo has been a relatively fluid and open riverine-based socio-cultural and economic space since the arrival of colonial states, without much interference from the ...
Lumenta, D. (Dave)
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The Case of Bezoar in a Patient Presenting with Vomiting
Haseki Tıp Bülteni, 2014 Bezoars are solid mass of a indigestible material accumulating in the gastrointestinal tract. Although rarely, bezoars may cause gastrointestinal obstruction. We aimed to present the case of a patient presenting with the complaint of vomiting in whom a
Hüsnü Aydın +4 more
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The world is too large : philosophical mobility and urban space in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Paris [PDF]
, 2006 Too often associated with the tropes of exile, wandering, or nomadism in postmodern thought, philosophical mobility has been little studied in itself, except in connection with the singular travel practices of a Voltaire, a Denis Diderot, or a Jean ...
Van Damme, Stéphane
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A rare presentation of gastric phytobezoar: Simultaneous bleeding and perforation. combined laparoscopic and endoscopic approach. Report of a case [PDF]
, 2023 Introduction: Bezoars are intraluminal conglomerates of indigestible foreign materials that accumulate in the gastrointestinal tract. We describe our experience with a patient with gastric perforation and concomitant gastric haemorrhage with severe ...
Agrusa, Antonino +5 more
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Endoscopy, 2019 Although gastrointestinal endoscopy is the routine treatment for small gastric bezoars [1], management of massive bezoars is always difficult even with a specific lithotriptor [2], electrohydraulic lithotripsy [3] or laser fragmentation [4].
Xiao Hu, Ren-yi Zhang, Wei-hui Liu
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An unusual sigmoid phytobezoar in a patient with a transplanted kidney: A case report
Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging, 2016 Bezoars are masses formed by the concretion of stomach contents or debris within the gastrointestinal tract. Bezoars are rare and account for only 0.4–4% of all cases of gastrointestinal obstruction and mainly occur in the stomach or small intestine ...
Paola Milillo +4 more
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Savory satisfaction can lead to lower gastrointestinal impaction [PDF]
, 2013 The differential diagnosis for constipation is large and includes many common diagnoses as well asother unusual ones. Bezoars are one of the diagnostic "zebras" that we do not think of frequently.Bezoars are foreign material masses that are formed in the
Hammad, Hazem +2 more
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Fermented persimmon extract (kaki-shibu) is useful as a standard for component analyses of persimmon phytobezoars [PDF]
, 2014 The definite diagnosis of persimmon phytobezoar (i.e., diospyrobezoar) is often accomplished by a component analysis using infrared spectroscopy. However, no studies have been conducted to investigate which substance is the best as a standard for the ...
Iwamuro, Masaya +6 more
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