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Revista médica de Chile · Aug 2008
Case Reports[Intestinal obstruction due to a trichobezoar or Rapunzel syndrome: report of one case].
- Juan Anzieta V, Orlando Felmer E, Mauricio Gabrielli N, Francisco Venturelli M, Gonzalo Sánchez C, and Carmen Torrijos C.
- Instituto de Cirugía, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile. janzieta@telsur.cl
- Rev Med Chil. 2008 Aug 1;136(8):1027-30.
AbstractRapunzel syndrome or gastrointestinal trichobezoar is caused by hair ingestion. The diagnosis may be suspected in young females with important weight loss, who deny hair eating. We report a 16 year-old female consulting in the emergency room for abdominal pain. She was subjected to an exploratory laparotomy and a big mass was palpated in the stomach. A gastrostomy and enterostomy were performed and a 17 x 6 x 5 cm trichobezoar was extracted. The patient had an uneventful postoperative outcome and was derived to Psychiatry.
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