
The authors report a retrospective study of 10 cases of gastric and small bowel bezoars. There was one gastric trichobezoar diagnosed by an abdominal mass and 9 small bowel obstruction due to phytobezoars. All patients underwent surgery: the gastric trichobezoar was removed through a gastrotomy; small bowel bezoars were treated either by enterotomy (n = 3), fragmentation (n = 5) or bowel resection (n = 1). Non operative treatment is efficient in gastric phytobezoars. Surgery is advisable for trichobezoars and small bowel bezoars. Prevention is main and patients who have gastric surgery must be alarmed from consumption of cactus in our country Tunisia.
Adult, Cactaceae, Male, Tunisia, Stomach, Middle Aged, Bezoars, Treatment Outcome, Intestine, Small, Humans, Female, Aged, Retrospective Studies
Adult, Cactaceae, Male, Tunisia, Stomach, Middle Aged, Bezoars, Treatment Outcome, Intestine, Small, Humans, Female, Aged, Retrospective Studies
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