
Bezoars are concretions of foreign material in the gastrointestinal tract, mainly the stomach. Chewing on and eating hair or any indigestible materials lead to the formation of a bezoar. Trichobezoar is a ball of swallowed hair that collects in the stomach and fails to pass through the intestines. They are confined within the stomach in most of the cases. However, rarely there is contiguous extension of trichobezoar through the pylorus into jejunum, ileum and even up to the colon. Such a condition is called the Rapunzel syndrome. The term comes from a story written by the Grimm brothers in 1812 about Rapunzel who was a long-haired maiden. She lowered her tresses to allow her prince charming to climb up to her prison tower to rescue her. This syndrome was first described in 1968 by Vaughan and since then till date just about 30 cases have been described in the literature.1
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