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Trichobezoar, a Cause of Nonspecific Acute Abdominal Pain: Four Case Reports and Bibliographic Review

Case Reports in Surgery, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.
Background: A bezoar is defined as a foreign body resulting from the accumulation of ingested material or food in the stomach. However, they can also be found in the duodenum and other segments of the intestine. The average age of occurrence is 11 years, predominantly affecting females.
Ruben Daniel Perez Lopez, Pabel Ruben Carbajal Cabrera, Laura Gabriela Sempere Alvarado, Hugo Fernando Narváez González, Angel Avila Rosales, Ashley Zulema Velázquez Jaimes, Daniela Figueroa Morales, Cintia Flores de la Canal, Alejandro Juan Embriz Sánchez, Julio Federico Reyna Marzano, Andee Dzulkarnaen Zakaria   +10 more
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Gastrointestinal bezoars in paediatrics: Case series and literature review

African Journal of Paediatric Surgery
Background: Bezoars are indigestible lumps which are usually found in stomach. Types of bezoar include phytobezoar, trichobezoar, lithobezoar, pharmacobezoar, plasticobezoar, lactobezoar and metal bezoar.
Mohamed Ahmed Elghazeery, Alhassan Mohamed Hassan   +1 more
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The Rapunzel Syndrome: An Unusual Trichobezoar Presentation

Case Reports in Medicine, 2010
The Rapunzel syndrome is an unusual form of trichobezoar found in patients with a history of psychiatric disorders, trichotillomania (habit of hair pulling) and trichophagia (morbid habit of chewing the hair), consequently developing gastric bezoars. The
Luiz Roberto Lopes, Priscilla Sene Portel Oliveira, Eduardo Marcucci Pracucho, Marcelo Amade Camargo, João de Souza Coelho Neto, Nelson Adami Andreollo   +5 more
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Primary Trichobezoar in Small Intestine: A Case Report [PDF]

International Journal of Anatomy Radiology and Surgery
Trichobezoar is a rare surgical condition that mostly occurs in the stomach and often causes a surgical emergency when left untreated. It is often predisposed by psychiatric conditions, mental retardation, previous gastric surgery, or abnormal anatomy ...
S kavin, V Sasikumar, T kovendhan, M Vijay   +3 more
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Rapunzel Syndrome: A Case Report

Journal of Nepal Medical Association
Rapunzel Syndrome is a rare clinical condition characterized by a trichobezoar in the stomach with its tail extending into the small intestine. It is commonly seen in adolescent females with only a few cases reported in children below 5 years of age ...
Mudasira Habib, Munna William, Rejina Chhetri, Anurag Jha, Nirmal Paudel, Janu Chhetri   +5 more
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Laparoscopic Management of Acute Pancreatitis Secondary to Rapunzel Syndrome

Case Reports in Surgery, 2016
A 17-year-old girl presented with bilious vomiting and abdominal pain to the surgery department. The history was positive for trichotillomania and trichophagia.
Bijan Koushk Jalali, Alperen Bingöl, Ashraf Reyad   +2 more
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Pediatric gastric trichobezoars with acute life threatening and undifferentiated elective bipolar clinical presentations

Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, 2017
Trichobezoar is a rare clinical condition causing acute abdomen in children. Clinical presentation is varied and ranging from chronic abdominal pain to gastric perforation. Its early diagnosis is necessary to combat complications.
Amit Kumar Sinha, Maheshkumar Manilal Vaghela, Bindey Kumar, Prem Kumar   +3 more
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Gastric perforation secondary to a trichobezoar: A case report and review of the literature

Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, 2017
This paper describes a 10-year-old female in whom gastric perforation occured secondary to a massive gastric trichobezoar. A literature review of this rare cause of gastric perforation follows.
Gayatri Malhotra-Gupta, DO, Courtney Janowski, MD, Richard Sidlow, MD   +2 more
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Rapunzel Syndrome: A Rare Presentation with Giant Gastric Ulcer

Case Reports in Medicine, 2014
The Rapunzel syndrome refers to an uncommon and rare form of trichobezoar that extends past the stomach into the small intestines. The Rapunzel syndrome is usually found in young female patients with a history of psychiatric disorders, mainly ...
Antonios Athanasiou, Adamantios Michalinos, Demetrios Moris, Eleftherios Spartalis, Nikolaos Dimitrokallis, Vaios Kaminiotis, Demetrios Oikonomou, John Griniatsos, Evangelos Felekouras   +8 more
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