• J. Gastrointest. Surg. · Aug 2011

    Case Reports

    The Rapunzel syndrome: a hard-to-swallow tale.

    • Thierry Bège, Ariadne Desjeux, Benjamin Coquet-Reinier, Stéphane V Berdah, Jean-Charles Grimaud, and Christian Brunet.
    • Department of Digestive Surgery, Hôpital Nord, Chemin des Bourrely, 13915, Marseille cedex 20, France. thierry.bege@ap-hm.fr
    • J. Gastrointest. Surg. 2011 Aug 1;15(8):1486-7.

    IntroductionRapunzel syndrome is a rare entity comprising of a large gastroduodenal trichobezoar due to trichotillomania. Its treatment is often surgical.Case ReportA 27-year-old patient was investigated after an upper gastro-intestinal tract obstruction. Computed tomography and endoscopy showed a large gastric trichobezoar with a duodenojejunal tail. Conservative treatments failed to remove the bezoar. We performed a short laparotomy which allowed the removal of the bezoar through a longitudinal gastrotomy. Postoperative course was uneventful.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…