Large bowel obstruction due to sesame seed bezoar: a case report
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Large bowel obstruction due to sesame seed bezoar: a case report
We report a case of a 79 year old man with a known benign anastomotic stricture presenting with large bowel obstruction. At laparotomy the obstruction was found to be caused by a large sesame seed bezoar. Seed bezoars are well known to cause impaction in the rectum but have never been previously reported to cause large bowel obstruction. We recommend that patients with known large bowel strictu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Case Reports
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1752-1947
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-1-159