Bizarre patient: he suffers from Rapunzel syndrome and a huge mass of hair perforates his stomach
By pulling out her hair and swallowing it, a 17-year-old woman developed a trichobezoar, a huge hairball that eventually perforated her stomach. A pathology nicknamed Rapunzel syndrome, of which there are barely sixty cases. Rapunzel syndrome, named after the Disney princess with very long golden hair, is not a fairy tale. It’s quite a nightmarish … Read more