Rare disease
Metal in stomach: a rare cause of gastric bezoar
1 Combined Military Hospital, General Surgery, Rawalpindi, Punjab, 4600, Pakistan
2 Military Hospital Rawalpindi, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Rawalpindi, Punjab, 4600, Pakistan
3 Armed Forces Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, Spinal Rehabilitation Unit, Armed Forces Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, Rawalpindi, 46000, Pakistan
Correspondence to:
dramjadyasin{at}gmail.com
Bezoars are conglomerates of undigested organic matter, which forms a mass in the gastrointestinal tract. This report describes a patient who developed a gastric bezoar from ingesting a large number of metal objects in order to "treat" his pulmonary tuberculosis.
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