DOI: 10.21276/sasjs.2018.4.11.2

Pages: 244-246

Gastrointestinal bezoars are conglomerates that may be made up of undigested vegetables fibers, persimmons or hairs and rarely cause mechanical intestinal obstruction. Occasionally, they may migrate distally and cause obstruction of small bowel. Bezoar formation mainly occurs in patients with predisposing factors like altered gastrointestinal anatomy due previous surgery or impaired gastric motility. The presence of isolated bezoar in the small bowel without synchronous existence of primary gastric bezoar or any apparent predisposing factors for bezoar formation remains an exceedingly a rare presentation