Trichobezoar is a rare condition caused by the accumulation of foreign material, specifically hair, into gastrointestinal tract. Underlying psychiatric disorders are common among patients diagnosed with bezoars. This most commonly associated trichophagia, trichotillomania might also be present. Typically, this disorder acquainted in adolescent females who complain alopecia, along an upper abdom...

Trichotillomania one of the rare symptoms in psychiatry is defined as compulsive desire to pull out hair from one's scalp leading to baldness and sometimes involving eyelashes and eyebrows (Tiling, 1975) and not a disease entity. Many a time, patient eats pulled hair, thus usually associated with Trichobezoar (Aleksandrowiez and Mares, 1978). There is no specific age of its occurrence. It is co...

Abstract Rapunzel syndrome is a rare entity with less than hundred case reports cited in the literature. In this, there presence of trichobezoar stomach which extends into small intestine or beyond. It can typically cause abdominal pain and nausea, but also present as an asymptomatic mass, progressing to obstruction perforation. Many these patients have associated psychiatric disorder. The gold...