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  • Title: [Trichobezoar. A rare cause of recurrent upper abdominal pain].
    Author: Ewert P, Keim L, Schulte-Markwort M.
    Journal: Monatsschr Kinderheilkd; 1992 Nov; 140(11):811-3. PubMed ID: 1470187.
    Abstract:
    Recurrent abdominal pain in a two years old toddler and a sixteen years old girl were caused by huge trichobezoars, which in one case had a weight of 412 g and provoked a gastric ulcus. Removal was possible only by gastrotomy. Deprivation in infancy and childhood in combination with slight mental retardation had led the teenager to trichtillomania and -phagia for years and finally to a bezoar. A short historic survey of the variety and therapy of bezoars is added.
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