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Thane: Ball of hair weighing 2.5 kg removed from girl's stomach

Updated on: 24 June,2015 07:37 PM IST  | 
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Doctors at Kalwa's civic run Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital performed a two-hour long surgery on Wednesday on a 15-year-old girl and removed a hair ball weighing 2.5 kg from her stomach, a doctor said

Thane: Ball of hair weighing 2.5 kg removed from girl's stomach

Thane: Doctors at Kalwa's civic run Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital performed a two-hour long surgery on Wednesday on a 15-year-old girl and removed a hair ball weighing 2.5 kg from her stomach, a doctor said.


"She is a mentally retarded girl with a long standing habit of eating of her own hair and rough paper. She was brought for loss of appetite, loss of weight and abdominal distension," Sukesh Thakur, a member of the three-member team of doctorsm including Vishwas Sapatnekar and Anupama Takawale, who performed the surgery said.


"During investigation, she was diagnosed with a rare disease called trichobazor, where a hair ball is collected in the stomach leading to distension of stomach, loss of appetite and loss of weight," he said. The mass of hair removed was a foot long and half a foor wide, the doctor said.


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