Trichobezoars are impactions of swallowed hairs in the stomach and occasionally in the intestine. They occur in emotionally disturbed, depressed, or mentally retarded patients who have trichotillomania and trichophagia. Removal of gastric trichobezoar by open surgery (gastrotomy) is a standard approach. Psychiatric follow-up is needed to diminish the recurrence of trichotillomania and trichopha...

OBJECTIVE: To report a rare case of a patient with gastric trichobezoar extended through the small bowel, proper to the Rapunzel syndrome. CASE REPORT: Girl at age 7 with history and exams suggestive of peritonitis whose laparotomy demonstrated trichobezoar and jejunal perforation. She also presented alopecia and psychological disorder which were not totally eliminated despite the support given...

INTRODUCTION Trichobezoar is a rare clinical entity in which a ball of hair amasses within the alimentary tract. It can either be found as isolated mass in the stomach or may extend into the intestine. Trichobezoars mostly occur in young females with psychiatric disorders such as trichophagia and trichotillomania. CASE REPORT Authors present a giant trichobezoar in an 18year old female presen...

Trichobezoars can rarely present with obstruction. This is usually due to collection of a hair ball in the stomach. We encountered an interesting case of small bowel obstruction due to a jejunal trichobezoar. The treatment generally is an enterotomy with removal of the hair ball. We report a case of a 29-year-old post partum female who presented to us with sub acute intestinal obstruction. Expl...

ABSTRACT: Trichobezoar in two different localizations at the same time: a case report occurs when hair cannot be digested and accumulated gastrointestinal tract after ingestion patients with trichobezoar, trichotillomania, trichophagia. It is frequently seen girls aged 13-20 years accompanied by psychiatric disorders. A trichobezoar presented time. 16-year-old girl weighing 56 kg to another hos...

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...

A 4-year-old girl presented with 1-year history of fatigue, early satiety, intermittent vomiting, alopecia, pallor, and weight loss without changes in bowel habits or overt gastrointestinal bleeding. Examination revealed thin hair, pale conjunctivae, and mu-cous membranes. Tachycardia and a systolic flow murmur (grade II/VI) were present. Abdomen was nontender, distended, and tympanitic, with h...

every material that gastrointestinal system cannot digest will make a bezoar. trichobezoar is the result of hair inges-tion whether self-hair or from others and is not a common disorder in humans. it is a hairball, which mostly has been seen in females at teenage, or adolescence. it usually locates in stomach but in rare conditions, it will pass through the intestine, and make the rapunzel synd...

Bezoars are collections or concretions of indigestible foreign material in the gastrointestinal tract. Trichotillomania is an impetuous disorder of pulling out one’s own hair, whereas trichobezoar is the formation of a hairball after trichophagia [1], which contains a large quantity of hair, varying in length, matted together. A 13-year-old patient presented with abdominal pain beginning 1 mont...

Every material that gastrointestinal system cannot digest will make a bezoar. Trichobezoar is the result of hair ingestion whether self-hair or from others and is not a common disorder in humans. It is a hairball, which mostly has been seen in females at teenage, or adolescence. It usually locates in stomach but in rare conditions, it will pass through the intestine, and make the Rapunzel syndr...