42-year-old female patient came with complaints of 5 days abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and constipation to our emergency service. No property was determined when chronic diseases of our patient, drugs used and history of surgery was questioned.It was learned that the purpose of slimming diet rich in fiber has been made for 10 days. Increase in bowel sounds on auscultation in the upper quadr...

Bezoar is defined as the accumulation of undigested foreign bodies or nutrients in the gastrointestinal tract. These foreign bodies can be hair (trichobezoar), fibers or seeds of vegetables and fruits (phytobezoar), or remnants of milk (lactobezoar) and stones (lithobezoar). Lithobezoar, the accumulation of stones in the digestive tract, is commonly seen in stomach. In this paper, a 7-year-old ...

Bezoars are the mass found trapped in the gastrointestinal system. They can also be termed as Gastrolith. The word “bezoar” is derived from the Persian pād-zahr, which means “antidote.” Trichobezoars and phytobezoars are the most frequent and usual form in the stomach and can pass into the small bowel where they occasionally cause obstruction. Most bezoars are found in patients with a history o...

A 61 year-old-man was referred to the emergency room with intense and acute epigastric pain after a large meal, without experiencing symptoms of nausea or vomiting. His medical history included obsessive neurosis and a Billroth I gastric resection due to a duodenal ulcer. The patient was hemodynamically stable and had a distended abdomen that was painful to the touch, with maintained peristalsi...

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...

Gastric surgeries may predispose patients to the formation of gastric phytobezoars. Cola-lysis through nasogastric lavage, endosopic infusion and/or the oral intake of cola are recently introduced techniques for the dissolution of phytobezoars. However, their complications have rarely been reported. Herein, we report a 56-year-old woman, who had previously undergone partial gastrectomy, severe ...