A Different Clinical Presentation for Intestinal Obstruction due to Rapunzel Syndrome: Diarrhea

Trichobezoars are defined as accumulation of hair or hair like substances in the stomach and/or small intestinal. It’s called Rapunzel syndrome when the accumulated hair ball pass the pylorus and reaches the small intestines and colon from the stomach. Clinical findings and treatment methods may vary according to the localization and size of the hair ball. In the literature; there are a limited of number publications about trichobezoar and Rapunzel syndrome but there hasn’t been a report of intestinal obstruction due to trichobezoar presenting to the emergency department with diarrhea. In this report; we will present a patient who applied to the emergency department with diarrhea and vomiting associated with intestinal obstruction due to Rapunzel syndrome.