RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Rapunzel syndrome
JF Saudi Medical Journal
JO Saudi Med J
FD Prince Sultan Military Medical City
SP 1912
OP 1914
VO 27
IS 12
A1 Ali H. Al-Wadan
A1 Mohamed Al-Absi
A1 Azan S. Al-Saadi
A1 Mohamed Abdoulgafour
YR 2006
UL http://smj.org.sa/content/27/12/1912.abstract
AB An 18-year-old single female patient, presented with non specific gastrointestinal symptoms of anorexia, abdominal pain, and change in bowel habit. Clinically she was anemic, cachectic, and depressed. Abdominal examination revealed mobile epigastric mass. The scalp alopecia and endoscopy coupled by computed tomography scan, confirmed the diagnoses of trichobezoar, but it was not diagnosed as Rapunzel syndrome except after laparotomy, gastrotomy, and enterotomy. There are less than 16 cases of Rapunzel syndrome described worldwide, and this is the first case to be described in the middle east.