An Unusual Case Report of Rapunzel Syndrome Trichobezoar in a 3-Year-Old Boy

An Unusual Case Report of Rapunzel Syndrome Trichobezoar in a 3-Year-Old Boy

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 tri...

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Main Authors: Jain, Manish, Solanki, Sohan Lal, Bhatnagar, Ankur, Jain, Pavan Kumar
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3250004/
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spelling pubmed-32500042012-01-05 An Unusual Case Report of Rapunzel Syndrome Trichobezoar in a 3-Year-Old Boy Jain, Manish Solanki, Sohan Lal Bhatnagar, Ankur Jain, Pavan Kumar Case Report 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. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3250004/ /pubmed/22223971 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7753.90820 Text en Copyright: © International Journal of Trichology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author Jain, Manish
Solanki, Sohan Lal
Bhatnagar, Ankur
Jain, Pavan Kumar
spellingShingle Jain, Manish
Solanki, Sohan Lal
Bhatnagar, Ankur
Jain, Pavan Kumar
An Unusual Case Report of Rapunzel Syndrome Trichobezoar in a 3-Year-Old Boy
author_facet Jain, Manish
Solanki, Sohan Lal
Bhatnagar, Ankur
Jain, Pavan Kumar
author_sort Jain, Manish
title An Unusual Case Report of Rapunzel Syndrome Trichobezoar in a 3-Year-Old Boy
title_short An Unusual Case Report of Rapunzel Syndrome Trichobezoar in a 3-Year-Old Boy
title_full An Unusual Case Report of Rapunzel Syndrome Trichobezoar in a 3-Year-Old Boy
title_fullStr An Unusual Case Report of Rapunzel Syndrome Trichobezoar in a 3-Year-Old Boy
title_full_unstemmed An Unusual Case Report of Rapunzel Syndrome Trichobezoar in a 3-Year-Old Boy
title_sort unusual case report of rapunzel syndrome trichobezoar in a 3-year-old boy
description 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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