Phytobezoar: A rare cause of intestinal obstruction

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 52-54

  Rubin, Moshe ^a,b   Shimonov, Mordechai ^a   Grief, Franklin ^a   Rotestein, Zeev ^a   Lelcuk, Shlomo ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Citrus fruit; Intestinal obstruction; Persimmons; Phytobezoar

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CITRUS FRUIT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; ISRAEL; MALE; PHYTOBEZOAR; STOMACH SURGERY; USSR; WINTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BEZOARS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEUM; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; JEJUNUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STOMACH;

EID: 0031974689     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000018586     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Raffin SB: Bezoars; in Sleisenger MH, Fordtran JS (eds): Gastrointestinal Disease, ed 4. Philadelphia, Saunders, 1989, chap 43, pp 741-744.
2. Harold E: Stomach and duodenum; in: Maingot's Abdominal Operations, ed 9. Norwalk, Appleton & Lange, 1990, sect 4, chap 26, pp 593-597.
3. Wyatt JP, Haddock G, Aitken RG: Gastric phytobezoar: Unusual association and resolution. Postgrad Med J 1993;69:659-660.
4. Serour F, Dona G, Kaufman M: Acute intestinal obstruction due to phytobezoars in Israel: Role of oranges and persimmon fruits. J Chir (Paris) 1985;122:299-304.
5. Kaplan O, Klausner JM, Lelcuk S, Skornick Y, Hammar B, Rozin R: Persimmon bezoars as a cause of intestinal obstruction: Pitfalls in their surgical management. Br J Surg 1985;72:242-243.