Trichobezoar from bristles brush and Carpet yarn requiring emergency laparotomy. Case report.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction and importance

When hair accumulates inside the stomach, it causes what is called a Trichobezoar, which leads to a stomach blockage, this condition is rare and more common in women and in patients with psychiatric disorders.

Case presentation

The authors report an unusual case of a 16-year-old girl who has trichobezoar not only by ingestion of hair, it is also by bristle clothes brush and Carpet yarn. she presented with acute abdominal pain and gastrointestinal symptoms-like watery diarrhea, vomiting, hypercoria and weight loss attributed to Anorexia. With an upper gastroscopy, the condition was diagnosed as a huge Trichobezoar that occupied the stomach. The patient was managed by surgical removal of the intra gastric mass.

Clinical discussion

Affected pa

SUBMITTER: Ayoub K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7930585 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature