1 Gastrointestinal Surgeon and Digestive Endoscopist. Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Coordinator at the Hospital Cardiovascular del Niño de Cundinamarca in Soacha, Cundinamarca Colombia. 2 Gastrointestinal Surgeon and Digestive Endoscopist at the Hospital Cardiovascular del Niño de Cundinamarca in Soacha, Cundinamarca Colombia and at Saludcoop and at the League Against Cancer in Bogotá, Colombi...

A 13-year old female patient presented to the emergency department (ED) with four days of intermittent non-radiating, left upper quadrant pain, associated with non-bloody, nonbilious emesis and decreased appetite. The patient had been evaluated by a gastroenterologist three months prior for abdominal pain. At that time an esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed a trichobezoar in the stomach too lar...

Gastrointestinal trichobezoar is a rare syndrome, defined by the accumulation inside digestive tract of non-digestible material usually formed hair rarely textile fibers (wool carpets or clothes), and source many diagnostic therapeutic errors delays in absence evocative psychic context. We report case 15-year-old adolescent with history carpet wool ingestion, who presented to visceral emergency...