Trichotillomania with Giant Gastric Trichobezoar in a Female Child: A Case Report

Trichotillomania is defined by the Diagnostics and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) as an individual repetitively pulling their own hair, which may be unconscious action or intentional. The disease considered one anxiety disorders it has some obsessive-compulsive features. Many patients with this disorder go to a dermatologist for first time complaint hair loss (alopecia), many them deny self-pulling behaviour. In rare circumstances, psychological problem coexist complication called gastric trichobezoar, like in unusual case presentation, accumulation patient’s stomach. It can huge, presenting ‘tail’ extending into duodenum leading what referred literature ‘Rapunzel syndrome’. Gastric trichobezoars are most often seen teenage females. Trichophagia only been previously confirmed one-third these patients, but usually late occurring after much eating years.