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Double Gastric Trichobezoar - A Case Report

Journal: International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) (Vol.6, No. 11)

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Page : 88-90

Keywords : Abdominal mass; Trichobezoar; Rapunzel Syndrome;

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Abstract

Bezoars are concretion of human or vegetable fibers that accumulate in the gastro-intestinal tract. Most common type of bezoar in humans is trichobezoar and almost all patients with a trichobezoar suffer from trichotillomania. Multiple giant bezoars which totally fill the stomach lumen and have extension to small intestine (Rapunzel Syndrome) are very rare. This is a case report of a young female who had a history of trichotillomania, trichophagia and pica. After investigations, she was diagnosed as a case of double trichobezoar in stomach with distal one extending to duodenum.

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