Trichotillomania one of the rare symptoms in psychiatry is defined as compulsive desire to pull out hair from one's scalp leading to baldness and sometimes involving eyelashes and eyebrows (Tiling, 1975) and not a disease entity. Many a time, patient eats pulled hair, thus usually associated with Trichobezoar (Aleksandrowiez and Mares, 1978). There is no specific age of its occurrence. It is co...

INTRODUCTION Trichobezoars are an infrequent form of bezoar found in the stomach or intestine, created from ingested hair. This condition has been well described in the surgical literature, but less reported in psychiatry. CASE PRESENTATION We describe the case of an 18-year-old Middle Eastern Caucasian woman with trichotillomania who presented to our emergency department with a history of ce...

This paper is an introduction to Thermal Texture Maps (TTM), starting from the end of the 80’s to the present, topics covered will be basic theory, medical and other fields’ application. It will also discuss TTM’s present technical problems and the expectation of TTM applications in this new century; proliferation of TTM technology in industrial engineering, military and medical fields and revo...