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| Year : 2011 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 102-104 |
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An unusual case report of rapunzel syndrome trichobezoar in a 3-year-old boy
Manish Jain1, Sohan Lal Solanki2, Ankur Bhatnagar1, Pavan Kumar Jain3
1 Department of Plastic Surgery, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
2 Department of Anaesthesiology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
3 Department of Neurosurgery, Goa Medical College, Goa, India
Correspondence Address:
Sohan Lal Solanki
MRA-A-45, SGPGIMS, Rae-Bareilly Road, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0974-7753.90820
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Rapunzel Syndrome is a rare trichobezoar, involving strands of swallowed hair extending as a tail through the duodenum, beyond the stomach. Trichobezoar usually occur in patients with history of trichotillomania, characterized by compulsive behavioral disorder of pulling own hairs, combined with trichophagia that consists of ingesting that hairs. It typically occurs in stomach and rarely affects the small intestine. Trichobezoars are more common in adolescent females. Common presentation is gastrointestinal tract obstruction with nausea and vomiting, gut perforation, acute pancreatic necrosis, obstructive jaundice, hypochromic anemia, vitamin B12 deficiency, weight loss, an abdominal mass, or other serious problems. Intestinal obstruction due to trichobezoar is extremely rare. We are here reporting a large trichobezoar in a 3-year-old male child who presented to the emergency department with thread protruding from mouth with no sign of hair loss on body. |
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