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 sure ...

In the first Harry Potter novel, Professor Severus Snape hopes to embarrass Harry by quizzing him on the topic of bezoars. According to Snape, they are stony masses found in the stomach of a goat that ...

A 42-year-old woman presents to the emergency department (ED) with periodic stomach pain and vomiting. While the symptoms have been ongoing for months, she decided to come to the ED after she noticed ...

Bezoar-induced gastrointestinal obstruction arises when conglomerates of indigestible substances accumulate within the digestive tract. Four principal types are recognised: phytobezoars composed of ...