https://www.selleckchem.com/pr....oducts/sn-011-gun359
Rapunzel syndrome refers to a gastric bezoar with post-pyloric extension. A child of primary school age presented with four days of abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and a non-tender palpable mass in the upper part of the abdomen. The child had a history of trichotillomania and trichotillophagia. Preoperative imaging including abdominal ultrasound and upper gastrointestinal series was suggestive of gastric bezoar extending into the duodenum. At laparotomy and gastrotomy a large trichobezoar which had taken the shape of the stomac
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