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Bijan Koushk Jalali1, Alperen Bingöl1, Ashraf Reyad1
1Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Abstract:
A 17-year-old girl presented with bilious vomiting and abdominal pain to the surgery department. The history was positive for trichotillomania and trichophagia. A CT scan showed a mass in the stomach, which was highly suspicious for a gastric bezoar. Drooping parts of the bezoar caused a duodenal obstruction with secondary acute pancreatitis. The bezoar was removed via a laparoscopically performed gastrotomy.
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