Cotton Bezoar Causing Intestinal Obstruction

Published in IJCP April 2018 SURGERY Cotton Bezoar Causing Intestinal Obstruction April 04, 2018 \| Jagannath Kulkarni, Sanjiv Kumar Goyal, Girish Singla Background: The unusual urge to eat cotton fibers is usually seen in people whose mental health is affected. Presentation could be in the form of trichophagy (eating hair), followed by trichobezoar or phytobezoar (eating vegetable fibers), which is a rare entity. Rapunzel syndrome is a term for tr

Published in IJCP April 2018

SURGERY

April 04, 2018 | Jagannath Kulkarni, Sanjiv Kumar Goyal, Girish Singla

Background: The unusual urge to eat cotton fibers is usually seen in people whose mental health is affected. Presentation could be in the form of trichophagy (eating hair), followed by trichobezoar or phytobezoar (eating vegetable fibers), which is a rare entity. Rapunzel syndrome is a term for tr

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