Mumbai: Doctors successfully removed a huge hairball of 50 cm from the stomach of a 10-year-old girl. ... severe weight loss and acute pain in the abdomen with palpable firm to hard mass.

Medical team of a private hospital in Coimbatore recently removed a mass of hair and foreign particles of about half kg from a 13-year-old girl’s stomach.

A 20-year-old woman, who has a rare mental disorder, was rescued by doctors who removed a hairball weighing 13 pounds from her stomach. The woman suffers from trichotillomania, which triggers a ...

One is open surgery, in which the stomach would be cut and remove the hair mass. The second one is endoscopy, which is used for only below 20 grams of hair mass. The third one is Laparoscopy.

A dead whale found in Indonesia this week reportedly had 13 pounds of plastic waste in its stomach. Researchers from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and conservationists at Wakatobi National Park ...

Surgery was conducted, and doctors were shocked to find a nearly 3-pound matted hairball inside her stomach. The hair mass had made it impossible for her to digest any food or retain any nutrients.