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Cotton Bezoar- a rare cause of intestinal obstruction: case report

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Title
Cotton Bezoar- a rare cause of intestinal obstruction: case report
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BMC Surgery, September 2003
DOI 10.1186/1471-2482-3-5
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Chintamani, Rakesh Durkhure, Singh JP, Vinay Singhal

Abstract

Bezoars usually present as a mass in the stomach. The patient often has a preceding history of some psychiatric predisposition. Presentation could be in the form of trichophagy followed by trichobezoar (swallowing of hair leading to formation of bezoar), orphytobezoar (swallowing of vegetable fibres). Rapunzel syndrome is a condition where the parent bezoar is in the stomach and a tail of the fibres or hair extends in to the jejunum. Presentation as intestinal obstruction due to a bezoar in the intestine without a parent bezoar in the stomach is rare, therefore we report it here.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 12 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 2 17%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 8%
Other 1 8%
Researcher 1 8%
Other 1 8%
Unknown 4 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 6 50%
Chemistry 1 8%
Psychology 1 8%
Unknown 4 33%
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