http://tomographyblog.com/2007/11/24/solution-to-picture-of-the-week-8-and-this-weeks-image/ Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:44:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://tomographyblog.com/2007/11/24/solution-to-picture-of-the-week-8-and-this-weeks-image/#comment-103 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:29:53 +0000 http://tomographyblog.com/2007/11/24/solution-to-picture-of-the-week-8-and-this-weeks-image/#comment-103 MK, you are quite right! This is a large mass of human hair that the girl could not digest. Doctors looked into her stomach with gastroscope but obviously surgical removal of the mass was necessary that is why it has the shape of her stomach.

]]> http://tomographyblog.com/2007/11/24/solution-to-picture-of-the-week-8-and-this-weeks-image/#comment-102 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:36:20 +0000 http://tomographyblog.com/2007/11/24/solution-to-picture-of-the-week-8-and-this-weeks-image/#comment-102 a specimen from someone with trichophagia….a condition in which the patient eats their hair….in this case, it appears to have been removed and still retaining the shape of the persons stomach.

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