We did not find any information throughout the article on the type, size, location of bezoars, or the patient’s history of previous operations. As is well known bezoars are observed in cases where gastric emptying time is prolonged after surgeries like gastrectomy or vagotomy, pyloric dysfunction or diabetic neuropathy and hypothyroidism, in patients who eat fast, swallow without chewing and ex...

Bezoar is an uncommon phenomenon which results from the accumulation of ingested foreign material such as hair, fur or fiber which can easily lead to formation of a large mass in the intestinal tract [1]. Bezoars were once prized as magical items with protective properties. The word “bezoar” comes from the Persian for “protection from poison”. People would place bezoars in their drinking glasse...

Background Acute small bowel obstruction caused by bezoars is rare and, therefore, this problem is not well known by a community of doctors worldwide. Hence, there is high frequency of diagnostic and tactical errors and often probability of late operations. The aim of this research is to study possible reasons for the bezoar formation, clinical course and treatment of intestinal obstruction cau...

Bezoars can result from any indigestible or poorly digestible substance that is capable of forming concretions within the gastrointestinal tract including stomach and small intestine. Phytobezoars are composed of concretions of vegetable matters [1]. Most of patients with bezoars are asymptomatic but intestinal obstruction has been reported [2]. Small intestinal phytobezoars are almost always o...

In the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, olibanum (frankincense) is commonly recommended as a part of the traditional popular medic cine for the treatment of some abdominal disease. Olibanum is used in Misurata as a chewing gum and is swallowed for the treatment of dyspepsia. Bezoars are large conglomerates of vegetables fibres, hairs or concretions of various substances loc cated in the stomach or small...

Bezoars are masses formed by the concretion of stomach contents or debris within the gastrointestinal tract. Bezoars are rare and account for only 0.4-4% of all cases of gastrointestinal obstruction and mainly occur in the stomach or small intestine. Intestinal obstruction caused by colonic bezoars is extremely rare. A 39-year-old man with a transplanted kidney came to the hospital because of a...

Objectives. The aim of this study was to detect factors associated with small bowel obstruction (SBO) caused by bezoars on multidetector computed tomographic findings. Methods. We retrospectively reviewed 61 patients who had bezoars in the small bowels on MDCT. The patients were divided into SBO patients group and non-SBO patients group. The mean values of the diameter, volume, and CT attenuati...

INTRODUCTION Phytobezoars are concretions of poorly digested fruit and vegetable fibers found in the alimentary tract. Previous gastric resection, gastrojejunostomy, or pyloroplasty predispose people to bezoar formation. Small-bowel bezoars normally come from the stomach, and primary small-bowel bezoars are very rare. They are seen only in patients with underlying small-bowel diseases such as d...