A woman in her 40s who was admitted to a hospital in East China with severe abdominal pains was found to have a 2-inch indigestible bezoar in the middle of her stomach. At first, doctors weren’t ...

Bezoars can occur in different locations along the GI tract, such as the stomach, small intestine, or colon. If a bezoar is in the large intestine, it is known as a fecalith.

A 42-year-old woman presents to the emergency department (ED) with periodic stomach pain and vomiting. ... Bezoars are classified into four types depending on the material they are composed of.

A 16-year-old girl’s mysterious gastrointestinal illness turned out to have an especially hairy culprit behind it. Doctors discovered that a giant hairball stuck in her stomach was the cause of ...

This is not my usual subject matter, but inquiring minds wanted to know, and I'm here to answer. I got this message from a reader, "We were talking about bezoars: what they are and how you get them.

Q-You wrote recently about the nutritional value of persimmons. Shortly afterwards, I read that persimmons can form indigestible balls in the stomach and cause an obstruction. Is that true? A-Yes, … ...

An 11-year-old in Kazakhstan is on the mend after surgeons removed a hairball that filled her stomach and extended more than 13 inches from the organ.

Bezoars are compact masses of undigested material that accumulate in the gastrointestinal tract, most commonly in the stomach, and can occasionally travel into the intestines, leading to obstruction.

The hairy bezoar extracted from the woman’s stomach. ©Verdi Cevallos Balda General Hospital. The mass that doctors pulled from her stomach was measured to be 16 inches long and weighed 2 pounds.