A Rare Case of Rapunzel Syndrome Causing Small Bowel Obstruction.

Abstract

Rapunzel syndrome is a rare form of bezoar in which trichobezoar is seen mostly in sufferers with records of psychiatric disorders, trichotillomania (dependency on hair pulling) and trichophagia (morbid addiction to chewing hair), consequently developing gastric bezoars. The fundamental signs are vomiting and epigastric ache. In this case report, we describe this syndrome in a younger female.