A Giant Gastrojejunal Trichobezoar: About A Case

Abstract

A gastric bezoar is a foreign materiel occur in the stomach & can be extended through duodenum, jejunum and colon. Trichobezoar, is an underdiagnosed entity, has to be considered in children and adolescents (especially females suffering from trichotillomania and trichophagia). The disease is usually underdiagnosed so showed by threatening complications: occlusion, bleeding of perforation. The present report concerns a 19-year-old girl presenting with abdominal pain. On the abdominal exam an acute peritonitis which rapidly evolved to septic shock and an emegercy laparomy was performed, by supraumbilical laparaotomy and anterior gastrotomy objictived peritonitis jejunal perforation caused by large gastrojejunal trichobezoar. Acute peritonitis following hollow viscus perforation caused by tichobezoars is an therapeutic emergency in order to avoid visceral spillage, peritonitis & mortality.