Unusual cause of gastric outlet obstruction: giant gastric trichobezoar: a case report

BACKGROUND: Trichobezoars are caused by hair ingestion. The usual presentation of a trichobezoar is with early satiety and malnutrition. Obstructive symptoms and manifestations of gastric outlet obstruction may occur. The diagnosis may be suspected in young females with malnutrition, who have a hist...

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Autores principales: Yetim, Ibrahim, Ozkan, Orhan Veli, Semerci, Ersan, Abanoz, Recep
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2634769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19087240
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-399
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author Yetim, Ibrahim
Ozkan, Orhan Veli
Semerci, Ersan
Abanoz, Recep
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Abanoz, Recep
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description BACKGROUND: Trichobezoars are caused by hair ingestion. The usual presentation of a trichobezoar is with early satiety and malnutrition. Obstructive symptoms and manifestations of gastric outlet obstruction may occur. The diagnosis may be suspected in young females with malnutrition, who have a history of trichophagia. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of 12-year-old female admitted to the emergency room for abdominal pain. On physical examination, she was cachectic and an epigastric mass was palpated. An exploratory laparotomy was conducted. A giant trichobezoar was palpated in the stomach and was removed through an anterior gastrostomy. CONCLUSION: There were no complications postoperatively and the patient was referred to a psychiatrist.
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spelling pubmed-26347692009-02-03 Unusual cause of gastric outlet obstruction: giant gastric trichobezoar: a case report Yetim, Ibrahim Ozkan, Orhan Veli Semerci, Ersan Abanoz, Recep Cases J Case Report BACKGROUND: Trichobezoars are caused by hair ingestion. The usual presentation of a trichobezoar is with early satiety and malnutrition. Obstructive symptoms and manifestations of gastric outlet obstruction may occur. The diagnosis may be suspected in young females with malnutrition, who have a history of trichophagia. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of 12-year-old female admitted to the emergency room for abdominal pain. On physical examination, she was cachectic and an epigastric mass was palpated. An exploratory laparotomy was conducted. A giant trichobezoar was palpated in the stomach and was removed through an anterior gastrostomy. CONCLUSION: There were no complications postoperatively and the patient was referred to a psychiatrist. BioMed Central 2008-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC2634769/ /pubmed/19087240 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-399 Text en Copyright © 2008 Yetim et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Unusual cause of gastric outlet obstruction: giant gastric trichobezoar: a case report
title_fullStr Unusual cause of gastric outlet obstruction: giant gastric trichobezoar: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Unusual cause of gastric outlet obstruction: giant gastric trichobezoar: a case report
title_short Unusual cause of gastric outlet obstruction: giant gastric trichobezoar: a case report
title_sort unusual cause of gastric outlet obstruction: giant gastric trichobezoar: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2634769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19087240
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-399
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