Complete laparoscopic removal of a gastric trichobezoar

Trichobezoars are seen usually in adolescent girls and laparotomy is required to remove them, though recently laparoscopic assisted and laparoscopic removal have been reported in adults and older children. We report this 4-year-old boy who underwent complete laparoscopic removal of a gastric trichob...

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Autores principales: Vepakomma, Deepti, Alladi, Anand
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Unusual Case
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4083549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25013333
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.134880
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description Trichobezoars are seen usually in adolescent girls and laparotomy is required to remove them, though recently laparoscopic assisted and laparoscopic removal have been reported in adults and older children. We report this 4-year-old boy who underwent complete laparoscopic removal of a gastric trichobezoar, both for its rarity in such young boys and also because he is the youngest reported patient to undergo complete laparoscopic removal of a gastric trichobezoar.
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spelling pubmed-40835492014-07-10 Complete laparoscopic removal of a gastric trichobezoar Vepakomma, Deepti Alladi, Anand J Minim Access Surg Unusual Case Trichobezoars are seen usually in adolescent girls and laparotomy is required to remove them, though recently laparoscopic assisted and laparoscopic removal have been reported in adults and older children. We report this 4-year-old boy who underwent complete laparoscopic removal of a gastric trichobezoar, both for its rarity in such young boys and also because he is the youngest reported patient to undergo complete laparoscopic removal of a gastric trichobezoar. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4083549/ /pubmed/25013333 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.134880 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Minimal Access Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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