Bezoars are concretion of undigested material found in the upper alimentary tract, particularly the stomach. Physiologic disturbances such as gastrointestinal dysmotility or anatomical derangements have been described as contributory in most cases of pharmacobezoars. Gastric phamacobezoars can be treated with endoscopic fragmentation or surgery. Gastric lavage with carbonated beverage has been ...

Trichobezoar is a rare condition caused by the accumulation of foreign material, specifically hair, into gastrointestinal tract. Underlying psychiatric disorders are common among patients diagnosed with bezoars. This most commonly associated trichophagia, trichotillomania might also be present. Typically, this disorder acquainted in adolescent females who complain alopecia, along an upper abdom...

Trichobezoars can rarely present with obstruction. This is usually due to collection of a hair ball in the stomach. We encountered an interesting case of small bowel obstruction due to a jejunal trichobezoar. The treatment generally is an enterotomy with removal of the hair ball. We report a case of a 29-year-old post partum female who presented to us with sub acute intestinal obstruction. Expl...

Trichobezoars are an infrequent form of bezoars formed from ingested hair. They are more common in adolescent females with history of trichotillomania. Exceptionally, it can occur in young children making the diagnosis difficult. We report the case of a 6-yearold girl with a history of abdominal pain, distension, weight loss, and attacks of vomiting. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed a ...

Diospyrobezoars are a subtype of phytobezoars caused by excessive consumption of persimmons, which contain large amounts of tannins. In contrast to phytobezoars, diospyrobezoars have a harder consistency than other bezoars, making them more difficult to break up both chemically and endoscopically. We have previously reported successful dissolution of phytobezoars with diet soda and cellulase. A...

Small bowel phytobezoars are rare and almost always obstructive. There have been previously reported cases of phytobezoars in the literature, however there are few reports on radiological findings for small bowel bezoars. Barium studies characteristically show an intraluminal filling defect of variable size that is not fixed to the bowel wall with barium filling the interstices giving a mottled...

From 1998 to 2002, 369 patients (47.39% M, 52.61% F; mean age 67.9 yrs) were faced in the Authors' Department due to acute intestinal obstruction. The main reasons of obstruction were adhesions in 281 patients (76.15%), followed by malignant neoplasms of large intestine in 41 patients (11.11%) hernias in 9 patients (2.44%), Ischemic colitis (4.1%), bezoars (2.39%), bile stone (2.71%) and volvul...

Small bowel perforation secondary to phytobezoars is a rare clinical entity, which is not well-documented in the radiological literature. Sonographic and computed tomography (CT) findings of a case of closed small bowel perforation secondary to phytobezoars in a patient with previous gastric surgery are presented. Both abdominal ultrasound and CT examinations revealed a collection containing ai...