A 35-year-old healthy man presented with gradually progressive abdominal pain and distention, nausea, vomiting, early satiety, and 4.5-kg weight gain over 3-4 months. His routine blood work, thyroid panel, ultrasound, and abdominal/pelvic CT were unremarkable. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) revealed a large gastric phytobezoar extending from gastric fundus to antrum (Figure 1). The patient di...

INTRODUCTION Patients with mechanical small-bowel obstructions usually present with abdominal pain, vomiting, absolute constipation and varying degrees of abdominal distention. Causes can be classified as benign or malignant, or as extra- or intraluminal. A bezoar occurs most commonly in patients with impaired gastrointestinal motility. In edentulous older patients with abnormal food habits, it...

Bezoars are partially digested conglomerates of fibres and foreign materials found in the gastro intestinal tract. Although they are common in lower vertebrates but there incidence in human being is rare. Bezoars in human beings can present with varied clinical signs and symptoms like colicky abdominal pain or intestinal obstruction or they may be silent and asymptomatic. In this case study we ...

Trichobezoars are indigestible masses of ingested hair commonly found in the stomach, often presenting with symptoms related to gastric outlet obstruction and severity mass’s size location. Rapunzel syndrome is caused by trichobezoar extended tail small bowel obstruction. Patients can be asymptomatic until bezoar increases size. We report a case 8 years old girl who visited emergency department...