title: Huge gastric bezoar caused by honeycomb, an unusual complication of health faddism: a case report.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Endoscopy and Motility Unit, "G.Gennimatas" General Hospital, Ethnikis Aminis 41, Thessaloniki, 54635, Greece. pk@yahoo.gr
authors.forename: Panagiotis
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authors.lastname: Katsinelos
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