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SUBMITTER: Soon YQA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6717776 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Soon Yong Quan Alvin YQA Low Hsien Min HM Huey Cheong Wei Terence CWT Wansaicheong Gervais Khin-Lin GK
Singapore medical journal 20190801 8
A 60-year-old man presented with abdominal pain. He was later diagnosed on imaging to have high-grade small bowel obstruction. The patient underwent surgery, and a hard, rounded bezoar resembling the endosperm of Nypa fruticans, colloquially known as attap chee, was found at the point of obstruction. Small bowel obstruction is a common acute surgical condition with multiple causes, including bezoars. We discuss the typical imaging features of bezoars causing small bowel obstruction as well as po ...[more]