Trichobezoar is a rare gastrointestinal pathology, but should be considered in patients with abdominal mass and previous history of trichophagia. In physical examination, it is important to verify signs of alopecia. Minimally invasive surgery is a secure method to remove the specimen from the stomach.

Introduction Trichobezoar is a rare entity that primarily occurs as complication of psychiatric disorders, most often in adolescent and young females suffering from trichotillomania (TTM) trichophagia. In many cases, children with TTM unwillingly admit hair pulling, deny ingesting feel ashamed their disease try to hide it. Objectives Our main aim was present an uncommon trichophagia point out t...

UNLABELLED Trichobezoar of gastrointestinal tract is an uncommon clinical condition and can present diagnostic and therapeutic challenge in practice. Clinical manifestations vary from no symptoms to serious complications. Delay in diagnosis may lead to an acute abdominal syndrome with lethal consequences, because of perforation, bleeding and obstruction of gastrointestinal tract. The most usefu...

Trichobezoars are rare masses of hair resulting from plucking (trichotillomania) and eating (trichophagia). Few the may also be carried by peristalsis into duodenum. This condition is known as Rapunzel syndrome. Complications include gastric perforation, small bowel obstruction pancreatitis. Here authors present a case 20-year old female patient who presented with complaints abdominal pain, ear...

Although not uncommon in mental hospital patients, a trichobezoar in a child is not often seen. Besides being rare, the condition is of considerable historical interest. The word 'bezoar,' derived from Arabic ' badzehr' or from Persian 'pad zahr,' signifying counter-poison or antidote, is the term applied to masses found in the intestine and stomach of both men and animals. Bezoars have been kn...

Trichobezoar is less common in boys. We are reporting a case of isolated ileal trichobezoars in a 4-year old boy causing intestinal obstruction and gut ischemia with perforation and peritonitis. The case was managed surgically with ileal resection and anastomosis. Postoperative period was uneventful.

Hypertrophic gastropathy (Ménétrièr's disease) is a clinical and pathological curiosity. It is often seen in association with a variety of other disease processes. The authors here present a previously undescribed association of Ménétrièr's disease with trichobezoar in the stomach and small intestine.

bezoars are concretions of foreign materials that impair gastrointestinal motility or cause intestinal obstruction in the stomach, small intestine or bowel of humans or animals. there are many types of them such as phyto, lacto and trichobezoars. although bezoars are not rare, multiple giant bezoars which totally fill the stomach lumen and have extension to the small intestine (rapunzel syndrom...