Phytobezoar: An unusual cause of small bowel obstruction

Phytobezoars are concretions of indigested fruit and vegetables fibers in the gastrointestinal tract. The past of gastric surgery is most common risk factor of phytobezoar. We present the case of a 39-year-old female was admitted to the emergency department and who presented with small bowel obstruc...

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Autores principales: Bouali, Mounir, Ballati, Ahmed, El Bakouri, Abdelilah, Elhattabi, Khalid, Bensardi, Fatimazahra, Fadil, Abdelaziz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7847810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33552491
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2021.01.048
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author Bouali, Mounir
Ballati, Ahmed
El Bakouri, Abdelilah
Elhattabi, Khalid
Bensardi, Fatimazahra
Fadil, Abdelaziz
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description Phytobezoars are concretions of indigested fruit and vegetables fibers in the gastrointestinal tract. The past of gastric surgery is most common risk factor of phytobezoar. We present the case of a 39-year-old female was admitted to the emergency department and who presented with small bowel obstruction due to phytobezoar, her past medical history was marqued by truncal vagotomy and simple suture recurrent perforated gastric ulcer 15 years earlier. Her postoperative recovery was uneventful.
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spelling pubmed-78478102021-02-04 Phytobezoar: An unusual cause of small bowel obstruction Bouali, Mounir Ballati, Ahmed El Bakouri, Abdelilah Elhattabi, Khalid Bensardi, Fatimazahra Fadil, Abdelaziz Ann Med Surg (Lond) Case Report Phytobezoars are concretions of indigested fruit and vegetables fibers in the gastrointestinal tract. The past of gastric surgery is most common risk factor of phytobezoar. We present the case of a 39-year-old female was admitted to the emergency department and who presented with small bowel obstruction due to phytobezoar, her past medical history was marqued by truncal vagotomy and simple suture recurrent perforated gastric ulcer 15 years earlier. Her postoperative recovery was uneventful. Elsevier 2021-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7847810/ /pubmed/33552491 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2021.01.048 Text en © 2021 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Phytobezoar: An unusual cause of small bowel obstruction
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title_full Phytobezoar: An unusual cause of small bowel obstruction
title_fullStr Phytobezoar: An unusual cause of small bowel obstruction
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title_short Phytobezoar: An unusual cause of small bowel obstruction
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