title: Small bowel obstruction due to phytobezoar: CT diagnosis.
abstract: Small bowel phytobezoars are rare and are almost always obstructive. The literature contains few reports on the radiological findings for primary small bowel bezoars. There is also very little published on CT results with this lesion, but the features of the scan are characteristic. We present the CT findings in a patient with an obstructive small bowel phytobezoar, and emphasize the diagnostic value of CT.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Baskent University Adana Teaching and Medical Research Center, 01250 Adana, Turkey. ysedat@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Tulin
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yildirim
authors.forename: Sedat
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yildirim
authors.forename: Ozlem
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Barutcu
authors.forename: Levent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Oguzkurt
authors.forename: Turgut
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Noyan
mesh_terms: D001630:Bezoars / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007082:Ileum; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed