İbrahim Tayfun ŞAHİNER, Metin ŞENOL, Zehra ÖZDEMİR ÜNAL, Hakan ÖZDEMİR

Colonic lithobezoar, a rare cause of ileus

Sindirilemeyen besin ya da yabancı cisimlerin gastrointestinal sistemde birikmesi bezoar olarakadlandırılır. Bu yabancı cisimler saç (trikobezoar), sebze ve meyvelerin lif ya da çekirdekleri(fitobezoar), süt kalıntıları (laktobezoar) ve taşlar (litobezoar) olabilir. Litobezoar çoğunluklamidede ve nadiren de kolonda görülür. Kolonik litobezoar genellikle demir eksikliği anemisi, picaya da psikiyatrik hastalarda görülür. Bu hastalarda mekanik barsak tıkanıklığı ve ileusa nedenolabilir. Bu olguda, iluesla başvuran ve kolonik litobezoarı olan 35 yaşında bir şizofreni hastasısunulmaktadır.

Kolonik litobezoar, nadir rastlanan bir ileus nedeni

The accumulation of undigested foreign bodies or nutrients in gastrointestinal tract is named asbezoar. These foreign bodies can be hair (trichobezoar), fibers or seeds of vegetables and fruits(pythobezoar), remnants of milk (lactobezoar) and stones (lithobezoar). Lithobezoar is mostly seenin the stomach and rarely in the colon. Colonic lithobezoar is usually seen in iron deficiencyanaemia, pica or psychologically ill patients. It can be the reason for mechanical intestinalobstruction and ileus at these patients. In this case, we present a 35-year-old schizophrene patientwith colonic lithobezoar who presented by ileus.

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