Huge gastric bezoar caused by honeycomb, an unusual complication of health faddism: a case report.
We report a young healthy woman, who believed that the consumption of large amounts of honeycomb would lead to good health and who finally developed a huge gastric bezoar of hard consistency. The conventional endoscopic techniques failed to manage the bezoar. Using the combination of injection of hydrogen peroxide 3% solution inside the bezoar to induce disintegration and a special designed needle-knife sphincterotome (bezotome) we managed to remove the bezoar in fragments. To the best of our knowledge this is the first reported bezoar caused by honeycomb.
Katsinelos
Panagiotis
P
Department of Endoscopy and Motility Unit, "G.Gennimatas" General Hospital, Ethnikis Aminis 41, Thessaloniki, 54635, Greece. pk@yahoo.gr
Pilpilidis
Ioannis
I
Chatzimavroudis
Grigoris
G
Katsinelos
Taxiarchis
T
Lazaraki
Georgia
G
Fasoulas
Kostas
K
Zavos
Christos
C
Kountouras
Jannis
J