However, gastric
bezoars are usually treated endoscopically rather than surgically.
In addition, in four patients (21%), there were images of masses that appeared to originate from the small bowel, and seven patients had
bezoars (36.8%)
Our series also includes 2 patients in whom the
bezoar consisted entirely of artificial hair extensions.
Laparotomy with extraction of the
bezoar is done with exploration of rest of the small intestine to look for detached
bezoars.
Previous gastric surgery, vagotomy-induced hypoacidity, and delay in gastric emptying are believed to be the most important factors facilitating
bezoar development; there is a 5% to 12% change in the incidence of
bezoar after gastrectomy (5-7).
After the endoscopy, the patient was given one can of Pepsi Cola and otherwise kept nil per os (NPO) for repeat endoscopy the following day with plans of possible
bezoar removal.
BEZOAR STONES IN CONTEXT: FIRST STUDY OF THEIR RELEVANCE IN PREHISPANIC COMMUNITIES OF NORTHWESTERN ARGENTINA
Where: National Waterfront Museum, Swansea EVER SEEN A REAL
BEZOAR? Well you can at this Welsh museum.
The Voynich Manuscript would not be out of place in the Kunstkammer in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, its fantastical plants associating with the adder's tongue credence, and the narwhal horn and
bezoar chalices.
* Stones and phytobezoar (A
bezoar of vegetable fibres) in Meckel's diverticulum.
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