All Tangled Up: Meter-Long Gastric Trichobezoar Causing Multiple Intussuscepting Points in an Adult

Gastric trichobezoars are a result of trichophagia secondary to trichotillomania, and can result in severe complications such as perforation or intussusception. We present the case of a 19-year-old female with multiple points of intussusception secondary to a large gastric/small intestine trichobezo...

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Autores principales: Lee, Daniel Jia Wei, Fong, Kang Ler, Tee, Yeow Chun, Aldridge, Oscar B
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
General Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10123237/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37102008
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36651
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description Gastric trichobezoars are a result of trichophagia secondary to trichotillomania, and can result in severe complications such as perforation or intussusception. We present the case of a 19-year-old female with multiple points of intussusception secondary to a large gastric/small intestine trichobezoar and describe our approach to diagnosis and eventual removal of the bezoar. 
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spelling pubmed-101232372023-04-25 All Tangled Up: Meter-Long Gastric Trichobezoar Causing Multiple Intussuscepting Points in an Adult Lee, Daniel Jia Wei Fong, Kang Ler Tee, Yeow Chun Aldridge, Oscar B Cureus General Surgery Gastric trichobezoars are a result of trichophagia secondary to trichotillomania, and can result in severe complications such as perforation or intussusception. We present the case of a 19-year-old female with multiple points of intussusception secondary to a large gastric/small intestine trichobezoar and describe our approach to diagnosis and eventual removal of the bezoar.  Cureus 2023-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10123237/ /pubmed/37102008 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36651 Text en Copyright © 2023, Lee et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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All Tangled Up: Meter-Long Gastric Trichobezoar Causing Multiple Intussuscepting Points in an Adult
title All Tangled Up: Meter-Long Gastric Trichobezoar Causing Multiple Intussuscepting Points in an Adult
title_full All Tangled Up: Meter-Long Gastric Trichobezoar Causing Multiple Intussuscepting Points in an Adult
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title_full_unstemmed All Tangled Up: Meter-Long Gastric Trichobezoar Causing Multiple Intussuscepting Points in an Adult
title_short All Tangled Up: Meter-Long Gastric Trichobezoar Causing Multiple Intussuscepting Points in an Adult
title_sort all tangled up: meter-long gastric trichobezoar causing multiple intussuscepting points in an adult
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