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Bezoars

Collection of indigestible substances that accumulate in the intestinal tract, usually the stomach.

Patients can present with gastric fullness but can have gastrointestinal obstruction, perforation or bleeding.

Up to 90% of patients have a history of gastric surgery.

Usually associated with young women suffering with psychiatric illness.

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