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...

Bezoars are concretions of undigested or partially digested foreign material in the gastrointestinal tract. They occur patients with altered motility anatomy (previous gastricsurgery, diabetes mellitus, neurological disorders). rare, an estimated %0.3 on upper endoscopy. The most common symptoms include abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, early satiety, anorexia, and weight loss. We present a pat...

Objectives. The aim of this study was to detect factors associated with small bowel obstruction (SBO) caused by bezoars on multidetector computed tomographic findings. Methods. We retrospectively reviewed 61 patients who had bezoars in the small bowels on MDCT. The patients were divided into SBO patients group and non-SBO patients group. The mean values of the diameter, volume, and CT attenuati...

inopelvic CT scan demonstrated a low-density, well-encapsulated massive gastric mass measuring 11 cm in diameter in its largest dimension ( fig. 1 ). Gastroduodenoscopy found an intrinsic foreign body in the stomach ( fig. 2 ). Endoscopic removal was attempted after chemical dissolution, but failed. After that, surgical removal by A 53-year-old man was admitted with epigastric pain, early satie...

nutritional status is very important especially in older adults because of its effects on quality of life. phytobezoar, for instance, that can lead to small bowel obstruction has risk factors such as excessive consumption of foods with high fiber content and inadequate chewing. these factors are related to dietary habits. furthermore, aging process and some of related physiologic changes can pr...

a phytobezoar is a concreted mass of undigested plant materials trapped in the gastrointestinal system and mostly in the stomach. a diospyrobezoar is a type of phytobezoar and is a rare condition; it is due to unripe persimmon ingestion. in this case, report, we recount the experience of a 26-year-old man who presented signs and symptoms of acute appendicitis, which was later diagnosed as a gas...

Objectives: We present the case of an edentulous 47-year-old farmer referred to our Department of Internal Medicine because of postprandial vomiting, hyporexia, asthenia and weight loss. He ate a mostly vegetarian diet. Materials and methods: An oesophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed the presence of a phytobezoar at the level of the fundus and body of the stomach. Endoscopic fragmentation and rem...

Revista CES MEDICINA Volumen 23 No.2 Julio Diciembre / 2009 ezoars are concretions of undigested food particles, medications, milk formulas and hair. The most common presentation of a bezoar is in the form of a phytobezoar, which is caused by precipitation of undigested particles of vegetables and seeds. Small bowel obstruction is mainly caused by adhesions from previous surgery. Of all causes ...

We present a rare case of a patient with delayed gastric emptying, gastric phytobezoar formation, and osteosclerotic bone lesions as an atypical association with multiple myeloma. Associated gastric features in myeloma, which include diffuse infiltration, gastric plasmacytomas, or delayed gastric emptying, are rare and have a poor prognosis.