A plastic bezoar causing bowel obstruction: A case of table cover ingestion.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction and importance

A bezoar is an indigestible food or other material within the gastrointestinal tract. It can be ingested intentionally or accidentally. The small bowel bezoar prevalence ranges between 0.4 % and 4 %, and the prevalence is less than 0.5 % for gastric bezoars. There are different types of bezoars, but the mention of a plastic bezoar rarely appears in the literature. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of a plastic bezoar in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Case presentation

A 58-year-old woman was admitted for acute kidney injury, and while working her up, it was discovered that she had a possible foreign body on computerized tomography scan. As a result, she underwent exploratory laparotomy with the findings of plastic foreign objects ide

SUBMITTER: Sultan N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10963632 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature