Thursday, November 22, 2007

Hairball

Yes… there’s a picture. 

It revealed “a large bezoar occluding nearly the entire stomach,” wrote Drs. Ronald M. Levy and Srinadh Komanduri, gastroenterologists at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois.

For the uninitiated, a bezoar is a hairball.

“On questioning, the patient stated that she had had a habit of eating her hair for many years—a condition called trichophagia,” they wrote.

The woman underwent surgery to remove the mass of black, curly hair, which weighed 10 pounds and measured 15 inches by 7 inches by 7 inches, the doctors said.

(1) Comments
Posted by Owen at 2025 hrs
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  1. Thanks alot, bud—now I’m not going to be able to even look at leftovers… wink

    Posted by Todd Lohenry on November 23, 2007 at 1127 hrs


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