Giant rectosigmoid lithobezoar in a child: Four significant clues obtained from history, abdominal palpation, rectal examination and plain abdominal X-ray


TOKAR B., Ozkan R., Ozel A., Koku N.

European Journal of Radiology Extra, cilt.49, sa.1, ss.23-24, 2004 (Scopus) identifier

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Colonic bezoars, especially lithobezoars are very rare findings in children. We report a 6-year-old girl with a giant rectosigmoid lithobezoar. History of constipation and pica, abdominal palpation of intraluminal fecoliths, a prickly hard mass found on rectal examination and plain abdominal X-ray showing radioopaque innumerable calculi scattered in colon and congregated in rectosigmoid region provide important clues for diagnosis of colonic lithobezoar. © 2003 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.