A 4-year-old female native goat with the history of inappetence and no defecation was referred to the Department of Clinical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine of Shiraz, Shiraz, southern Iran. During exploratory laparotomy, pyloric obstruction and displacement of the abomasum to the left side was observed. Obstruction of pylorus was due to a ball-shaped phytobezoar. The goat was followed ...

gastric bezoars are gastric masses, which rarely cause intestinal obstruction by passing through the small bowel. in this article, we report a 56 year-old man with no history of gastric surgery who presented with intestinal obstruction. the obstruction seemed to be in terminal ileum. colonoscopy was done and a movable mass was noted, which was extracted from the cecum by colonoscope resulting i...

Bezoars are abnormal concretions of indigestible organic material in the lumen of the gastrointestinal tract. They are named according to the predominant component material, for example, hair-trichobezoar and plant substancephytobezoar. Trichobezoars are the commonest type of bezoars. Phytobezoar is a rare type of intestinal bezoar and is defined as a compact mass of fibers, peels, seeds, leave...