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Giant Gastric Trichobezoar: A Case Report of an Adolescent Girl [PDF]

Clinical Case Reports
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.
Sehrish Irshad, Shahzeen Irshad, Maryam Irshad, Mahnoor Fatima, Zulqarnain Ali   +4 more
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Gastric Trichobezoar: A Case Report of a Young Adult From a Secondary Hospital [PDF]

Clinical Case Reports
Key Clinical Message Trichobezoar is the pathological formation of a hair mass within the gastrointestinal tract, usually correlated with psychiatric conditions like trichotillomania and trichophagia.
Mohaned Altijani Abdalgadir Hamdnaalla, Mohammed Ali Mohammed Ali, Eltayeb Sabeil Abdalla Idris, Maisara Fathi Ahmed Salih, Heyam Abdelazim Abdelrahim Ali, Rame Taha Zeiada Taha, Loai Osman Elrofaie Osman   +6 more
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Pediatric Rapunzel Syndrome Presenting With Jejunojejunal Intussusception Managed Surgically: A Rare Case Report [PDF]

Clinical Case Reports
Bezoars are masses of indigestible material within the gastrointestinal tract. Trichobezoars, composed of hair, are rare and typically occur in young females with psychiatric conditions.
Muhammad Irfan, Hafiz Abdul Mughees, Muhammad Talha Safdar, Muhammad Hassaan Javaid, Rehman Asif, Abubakr Mahmoud, Muhammad Bilal Masood, Tashfeen Farooq, Fatima Nazir   +8 more
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Acute Abdominal Pain with Obstructing Trichobezoar: A Pediatric Case of Rapunzel Syndrome Diagnosed in a Pediatric Emergency Department [PDF]

Pediatric Reports
Introduction: Acute abdominal pain is a prevalent complaint in pediatric emergency departments. Primary care physicians can find it challenging to treat such pain and, in particular, to determine whether it requires emergent surgical intervention.
Sung-Ha Kim, Jong-In Lee, Soohyun Park, So-Hyun Paek   +3 more
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An unusual case of trichotillomania and trichophagia associated with authentic hair extension as seen in a young African-American female adult

Discover Psychology, 2022
Trichotillomania refers to repetitive pulling of hair from the body and may be accompanied by trichophagia, the ingesting of extracted hair. It is frequently comorbid with other psychiatric disorders and resulting hair loss can seriously affect quality ...
Akshar Patel, Alex Kim, James Grant Loomis, Tracey Okwara, Michael Miller   +4 more
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Rapunzel Syndrome as a Complication of Childhood-Onset Trichotillomania. [PDF]

Case Rep Psychiatry
Introduction Rapunzel syndrome is a rare and potentially life‐threatening complication of trichotillomania with trichophagia, characterized by the extension of a gastric trichobezoar into the small intestine. Diagnosis is frequently delayed due to nonspecific presenting symptoms, and management requires both surgical intervention and psychiatric ...
Darapaneni R, Nobile Z, Reed R, Espiridion E, Gurski J.   +4 more
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Giant Gastroduodenal Trichobezoar: An Endoscopic Surprise

Journal of Digestive Endoscopy, 2018
A trichobezoar is a rare condition, mostly seen in teenage girls with abnormal psychiatric behavior of eating hairs and nails (trichophagia). Trichobezoar may rarely present with nonspecific abdominal symptoms without obvious trichotillomania and ...
Ashish Kumar Jha, Manish Kumar Mishra, Rakesh Kumar, Madhur Chaudhary, Shubham Purkayastha, Praveen Jha, Nazis Raza   +6 more
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Trusting your gut: a hairy situation—gastric trichobezoar case report [PDF]

Frontiers in Pediatrics
Trichobezoars are rare masses made from ingested hair that are commonly seen in young females. We report a case of a 7-year-old girl who presented with generalized abdominal pain and rapid weight loss.
Amy Yeung, Lauren Dankner, J. Antonio Quiros, Eric Lazar, Linda Li, Khadijah Walker, Sita Chokhavatia   +6 more
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Rapunzel syndrome: Trichobezoar-induced pancreatitis unraveled. [PDF]

JPGN Rep
Abstract Trichobezoars are rare hair‐based intraluminal foreign bodies that may cause significant gastrointestinal complications, particularly when extending into the duodenum as in Rapunzel syndrome. We report the case of an 11‐year‐old girl with sensory processing difficulties and undiagnosed avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), who ...
Scott H, Sansguiri A, Polachek A, Matthews S, Mehta M.   +4 more
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Trichobezoar: A Rare Cause of Gastric Obstruction

Global Pediatric Health, 2023
Trichobezoar is a rare disorder of the young girl with a psychiatric profile. It is suspected when there is a notion of trichophagia, although its clinical manifestations are non-specific.
Ibrahima Dokal Diallo MD, Wend-Yam Mohamed Traore MD, Anass Zahraoui MD, El Waled Moustapha MD, Nabil Moatassim Billah PhD, Iitimad Nassar PhD   +5 more
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