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Ulus Travma Acil Cer · Apr 2022
Case ReportsTrichophagia as a cause of acute appendicitis in a patient with bipolar disorder.
- Halit Eren Taşkın, Ergin Erginöz, and Gökçe Hande Çavuş.
- Department of General Surgery, İstanbul University Cerrahpaşa-Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul-Turkey.
- Ulus Travma Acil Cer. 2022 Apr 1; 28 (4): 554556554-556.
AbstractAcute appendicitis is one of the most common abdominal surgical emergencies worldwide. Clinical diagnosis is possible in most of the cases although imaging modalities may become necessary if the diagnosis is uncertain. Appendectomy, preferably the laparoscopic ap-proach, still remains the gold standard treatment to date. The pathophysiology usually includes luminal obstruction by an appendicolith or lymphoid hyperplasia and rarely parasitic infections. In this report, we present an extremely rare case of a patient with diagnosis of bipolar disorder and a history of trichophagia resulting in trichobezoar formation within the appendiceal lümen leading to acute appendicitis.
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