title: Successful endoscopic treatment of an intestinal diospyrobezoar migrated from the stomach.
abstract: Diospyrobezoars are a rare cause of small intestinal obstruction. A 78-year-old man, with a history of persimmons ingestion and gastrectomy, presented with upper abdominal pain and weight loss. The upper gastrointestinal endoscopy showed a huge bezoar in the stomach. After initial endoscopic fragmentation, the abdominal X-ray revealed intestinal obstruction and the colonoscopy showed large fragments of the bezoar filling the terminal ileum. The migrated bezoar pieces were successfully removed by endoscopic fragmentation with a cutting lithotripter.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
authors.forename: Xiao Long
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Wan
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
authors.forename: Xiao Yan
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dong
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001630:Bezoars / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D029788:Diospyros; D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal / Q000379:methods*; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D007421:Intestine, Small; D008297:Male; D011860:Radiography, Abdominal; D013270:Stomach
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