Dry Fruit Bezoar Causing Acute Small Intestinal Obstruction

Ortíz-Hidalgo, Carlos; Cuesta‐Mejías, Teresa; Cervantes-Castro, Jorge

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“…Bezoars are concretions of fruit and vegetable fiber in the alimentary tract [6]. Other predisposing factors are ingestion of high-fiber foods [7]. The patient's favorite food was persimmon.…”

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“…To date, computed tomography (CT) imaging has been reported to be useful for imaging patients with SBO as this modality is very effective for determining the presence or absence of SBO as well as the level and cause of SBO [7]; however, there are only a few reports [9] regarding the CT findings of bezoars associated with SBO. DBE is a safe, feasible diagnostic tool that allows high-resolution endoscopic imaging and total enteroscopy [10] and enables the collection of tissue for histological studies.…”

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A Case of Small Bowel Obstruction Caused by Bezoars Diagnosed with Double Balloon Enteroscopy

Saita

Maekawa

Sato

et al. 2012

Case Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine

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Primary small bowel bezoars are rare and cause acute abdomen due to small bowel obstruction (SBO). A 69-year-old Japanese man presented with epigastric pain associated with fullness. Physical examination of the abdomen showed no marked signs of peritoneal irritation. An erect X-ray film of the abdomen showed small bowel obstruction. Computed tomography (CT) showed a dilated small bowel loop proximal to the site of the obstruction. Retrograde double balloon enteroscopy (DBE) was performed and showed yellow, hard bezoars blocking the distal ileum. At surgery, a bezoar was found impacted in the distal ileum, and enterotomy with extraction was performed. After 9 days, the patient was discharged from our hospital in satisfactory condition. DBE also appears to be a safe and useful diagnostic tool in patients with SBO, and the findings of DBE influence the strategy of therapy in patients in whom the cause of SBO could not be determined by conventional radiography.

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A Case of Small Bowel Obstruction Caused by Bezoars Diagnosed with Double Balloon Enteroscopy

Saita

Maekawa

Sato

et al. 2012

Case Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine

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“…were also on record. [11][12][13][14][15] The stomach is the most common site of bezoar formation, followed by the small intestine and, rarely, the colon or rectum. 16,17 Among all type of bezoar phytobezoars are the most common type and formed by excessive consumption of herbal nutrients containing high amounts of indigestible fibers, such as cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin and fruit tannins.…”

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Intestinal Phytobezoar: A Rare Case Report

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“…Since then, neutral buffered formalin has been the fixative of choice in pathology [1]; in addition, Bouin's solution (BS) has been historically used as common fixative in several European and Canadian laboratories. This fixative, introduced in 1897 by the French histologist Pol André Bouin, contains, besides formalin, also picric and acetic acid [2,3]. Within such mixture, picric acid causes protein coagulation, formalin leads to cross-linking among tissue molecules, while acetic acid enhances the penetration of the fixative into the tissue [4].…”

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Evaluation of the suitability of archival Bouin‐fixed paraffin‐embedded tissue specimens to proteomic investigation

Tanca¹,

Addis²,

Simula

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Bouin's solution has been used for over a century as a common fixative in several pathology laboratories worldwide. Therefore, a considerable number of Bouin-fixed paraffin-embedded (BFPE) tumor samples of various origin are available in hospital repositories as a powerful information mine for clinical investigations. To date, however, such archived tissues have not been subjected to a systematic study aimed to evaluate their potential use in proteomics. In this report, we investigated whether archival BFPE tissue specimens could be exploited for proteomic studies, upon application of protein extraction and proteomic analysis methods previously optimized for formalin-fixed samples. As a result, gastric BFPE protein extracts exhibited poor suitability for 2D-PAGE analysis, whereas over 300 unique proteins could be successfully detected when extracts were subjected to SDS-PAGE followed by LC-MS/MS (GeLC-MS/MS). Among these, several known markers for gastric cancer and normal gastric functionality were identified, indicative of biological and clinical significance of proteomic data mined from BFPE tissues. A quantitative and qualitative comparison of FFPE and BFPE tissue proteomes was also performed, and results are reported. In conclusion, we demonstrated that BFPE specimens can be analyzed by means of a proteomic approach such as GeLC-MS/MS. Although considerable molecular biases and technical constraints exist, BFPE tissue archives can be fruitfully exploited for gathering proteomic data from particularly precious samples.

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Dry Fruit Bezoar Causing Acute Small Intestinal Obstruction

Cited by 7 publications

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A Case of Small Bowel Obstruction Caused by Bezoars Diagnosed with Double Balloon Enteroscopy

A Case of Small Bowel Obstruction Caused by Bezoars Diagnosed with Double Balloon Enteroscopy

Intestinal Phytobezoar: A Rare Case Report

Evaluation of the suitability of archival Bouin‐fixed paraffin‐embedded tissue specimens to proteomic investigation

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