• European radiology · Nov 2002

    Case Reports

    Small bowel obstruction due to phytobezoar: CT diagnosis.

    • Tulin Yildirim, Sedat Yildirim, Ozlem Barutcu, Levent Oguzkurt, and Turgut Noyan.
    • Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Baskent University Adana Teaching and Medical Research Center, 01250 Adana, Turkey. ysedat@hotmail.com
    • Eur Radiol. 2002 Nov 1; 12 (11): 2659-61.

    AbstractSmall bowel phytobezoars are rare and are almost always obstructive. The literature contains few reports on the radiological findings for primary small bowel bezoars. There is also very little published on CT results with this lesion, but the features of the scan are characteristic. We present the CT findings in a patient with an obstructive small bowel phytobezoar, and emphasize the diagnostic value of CT.

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