Cargando…

Acute Cholecystitis Masking a Gastric Bezoar

A bezoar is a solid mass of indigestible material that usually forms in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Gastric bezoars, located in the stomach, can present variably. They can be asymptomatic or present with GI symptoms like nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, or more serious complications, such as G...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Chaudhry, Manahil, Iqbal, Noreena, Malik, Ayesha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8967111/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35386171
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22673
_version_ 1784678768592289792
author Chaudhry, Manahil
Iqbal, Noreena
Malik, Ayesha
author_facet Chaudhry, Manahil
Iqbal, Noreena
Malik, Ayesha
author_sort Chaudhry, Manahil
collection PubMed
description A bezoar is a solid mass of indigestible material that usually forms in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Gastric bezoars, located in the stomach, can present variably. They can be asymptomatic or present with GI symptoms like nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, or more serious complications, such as GI obstruction or perforation. Diagnostic modalities are mainly radiological, and treatment may either be conservative or interventional. Herein, we disclose the case of a 47-year-old female who presented with a two-week history of abdominal pain with an incidental finding of a possible gastric phytobezoar, co-existing with gallbladder disease. Although not previously reported, this study highlights the possibility of an association between gallbladder disease and the formation of a bezoar.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-8967111
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2022
publisher Cureus
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-89671112022-04-05 Acute Cholecystitis Masking a Gastric Bezoar Chaudhry, Manahil Iqbal, Noreena Malik, Ayesha Cureus Internal Medicine A bezoar is a solid mass of indigestible material that usually forms in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Gastric bezoars, located in the stomach, can present variably. They can be asymptomatic or present with GI symptoms like nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, or more serious complications, such as GI obstruction or perforation. Diagnostic modalities are mainly radiological, and treatment may either be conservative or interventional. Herein, we disclose the case of a 47-year-old female who presented with a two-week history of abdominal pain with an incidental finding of a possible gastric phytobezoar, co-existing with gallbladder disease. Although not previously reported, this study highlights the possibility of an association between gallbladder disease and the formation of a bezoar. Cureus 2022-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8967111/ /pubmed/35386171 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22673 Text en Copyright © 2022, Chaudhry 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.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Chaudhry, Manahil
Iqbal, Noreena
Malik, Ayesha
Acute Cholecystitis Masking a Gastric Bezoar
title Acute Cholecystitis Masking a Gastric Bezoar
title_full Acute Cholecystitis Masking a Gastric Bezoar
title_fullStr Acute Cholecystitis Masking a Gastric Bezoar
title_full_unstemmed Acute Cholecystitis Masking a Gastric Bezoar
title_short Acute Cholecystitis Masking a Gastric Bezoar
title_sort acute cholecystitis masking a gastric bezoar
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8967111/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35386171
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22673
work_keys_str_mv AT chaudhrymanahil acutecholecystitismaskingagastricbezoar
AT iqbalnoreena acutecholecystitismaskingagastricbezoar
AT malikayesha acutecholecystitismaskingagastricbezoar