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Duodenal diastatic perforation due to double gastric and jejunal trichobezoar in a patient with Rapunzel syndrome.

Luisa Paola Garzón HernándezIsabel Mora OliverErnesto Muñoz SornosaElena Marti Cuñat
Published in: Revista espanola de enfermedades digestivas : organo oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Patologia Digestiva (2023)
Rapunzel syndrome is a rare clinical entity in which a trichobezoar is produced by the ingestion of hair at the gastric level, extending in the form of a tail towards the duodenum. It occurs in young patients with trichotillomania and trichophagia. We present the case of a 24-year-old woman with a history of anxiety without treatment, who for 10 years presented trichotillomania and trichophagia, producing a picture of intestinal obstruction that required surgical intervention, evidencing a giant Trichobezoar throughout the gastric cavity and one jejunum associated with diastatic perforation. duodenal.
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