BACKGROUND Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) and abdominal pain are commonly seen in a pediatric emergency department (8 and 18% incidence respectively in our center). They are manifestations of a wide variety of diseases ranging from benign to immediately life-threatening. Trichobezoar is an under-diagnosed entity that has to be considered in children and adolescents, expecially female, suffering f...

Recurrent Rapunzel syndrome (RRS) is a rare clinical presentation with fewer than six cases reported in the PubMed literature. A report of RRS and literature review is presented. A 25-year-old female was admitted to hospital with a 4-wk history of epigastric pain and swelling. She had a known history of trichophagia with a previous admission for Rapunzel syndrome requiring a laparotomy nine yea...

Trichobezoar should be considered in the differential diagnosis pediatric patients who present with complaints of abdominal pain, feeding problems, and vomiting as well psychiatric problems.Rapunzel syndrome is a rare form trichobezoar that can extend from stomach to small intestine even colon. In this case report, 9-year-old girl autism accompanied by trichotillomania trichophagia diagnosed Ra...

Rapunzel syndrome is an extremely rare complication of a gastric trichobezoar in. We report here the unusual case of a case of a 16 years old girl presented with severe abdominal pain and vomiting. Clinical examination revealed a malnourished girl, with presence of a mobile and sensitive abdominal mass of 20x15 cm witch filled the upper quadrant. An abdominal computed tomography scan showed a h...

Mechanisms that regulate the growth and form of the vertebrate skeleton are largely unknown. The zebrafish mutant rapunzel has heterozygous defects in bone development, resulting in skeletal overgrowth, thus identification of the genetic lesion underlying rapunzel might provide insight into the molecular basis of skeletogenesis. In this report, we demonstrate that the rapunzel mutant results fr...

We here report a case of 9 years old girl presented in casualty with an acute abdomen and small bowel obstruction and on laprotomy a large trichobezoar was revealed extending into small intestine along with intussuception. Rapunzel syndrome is a rare but potentially fatal trichobezoar. Trichobezoar, an underdiagnosed entity, has to be considered in the differential diagnosis of abdominal pain a...

Trichobezoars are defined as accumulation of hair or like substances in the stomach and/or small intestinal. It’s called Rapunzel syndrome when accumulated ball pass pylorus and reaches intestines colon from stomach. Clinical findings treatment methods may vary according to localization size ball. In literature; there a limited number publications about trichobezoar but hasn’t been report intes...