Huge gastric bezoar caused by honeycomb, an unusual complication of health faddism: a case report

We report a young healthy woman, who believed that the consumption of large amounts of honeycomb would lead to good health and who finally developed a huge gastric bezoar of hard consistency. The conventional endoscopic techniques failed to manage the bezoar. Using the combination of injection of hy...

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Autores principales: Katsinelos, Panagiotis, Pilpilidis, Ioannis, Chatzimavroudis, Grigoris, Katsinelos, Taxiarchis, Lazaraki, Georgia, Fasoulas, Kostas, Zavos, Christos, Kountouras, Jannis
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829904
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-7077

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829904
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-7077

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