Laparoscopic Management of Acute Pancreatitis Secondary to Rapunzel Syndrome

Overview

Journal Case Rep Surg

Publisher Wiley

Specialty General Surgery

Date 2016 May 5

PMID 27144047

Citations 6

Authors

Bijan Koushk Jalali

Alperen Bingol

Ashraf Reyad

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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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