title: [Conservative treatment of phytobezoars of the stomach with cellulase].
abstract: In a female patient anaemia due to chronic blood loss occurred after gastrectomy and subsequent vagotomy. Gastroscopy showed a phytobezoar to be the cause. In a second patient who had not had gastric surgery a phytobezoar was found as well as a prepyloric ulcer during investigations for upper abdominal symptoms. In both cases the phytobezoars could be removed completely within a short time after dissolution by an oral cellulase containing enzyme preparation and gastroscopic breaking-up.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001630:Bezoars / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology; D002480:Cellulase / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D005773:Gastroscopy; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010944:Plants; D011178:Postgastrectomy Syndromes / Q000188:drug therapy; D013270:Stomach; D013276:Stomach Ulcer / Q000150:complications; D014628:Vagotomy
chemical_list: D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases; D002480:Cellulase
vernacular_title: Konservative Behandlung von Phytobezoaren des Magens mittels Cellulase