Small bowel obstruction due to phytobezoar: CT diagnosis

Eur Radiol. 2002 Nov;12(11):2659-61. doi: 10.1007/s00330-001-1267-0. Epub 2002 Feb 15.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Bezoars / complications
  • Bezoars / diagnostic imaging*
  • Humans
  • Ileum*
  • Intestinal Obstruction / diagnostic imaging*
  • Intestinal Obstruction / etiology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed*