GASTROINTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION FROM PHYTOI5EZOAR IN CHILDHOOD: REPORT OF TWO CASES

Abstract

This is a report of two children aged twenty seven months and six years respectively presenting with gastrointestinal obstruction from phytobezoar. In the 27month old child, laparotomty and gastrotomy was perfomed to evacuate the bazoar. However, death occured from hypokalaemia. The six year old child had a sacro-abdomino-perineal pull through for anorectal malformation previously and the bezoar lodged just above the neoanus. Neoanal dilation allowed removal of the obstruction. There has been no recurrence. The literature on bezoar is briefly reviewed.