Polystyrene bezoar in a patient with polystyrenomania
Finley, C.R.; Hellmuth, E.W.; Schubert, T.T.
American Journal of Gastroenterology 83(1): 74-76
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0002-9270 PMID: 3337063 Document Number: 312579
A 35-yr-old man with hematemesis, epigastric pain, and no predisposing factors to delayed gastric emptying was found to have a gastric bezoar. Surgical removal was required. Pathological and biochemical examination revealed a mass composed of polystyrene. This represents an unusual composition and a newly recognized predisposing factor to bezoar formation, "polystyrenomania" from ingestion of styrofoam cups.