16 August 2010

A trichobezoar, I presume

No explanation at the link, but not much else it could be.

Update:  A hat tip to Rich H, who found the photo at Random Citations, with an original source at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, with photo credit to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

7 comments:

  1. How about a little warning when you post someone with their guts splayed open? Love your blog but would like the option not to look at gross stuff :-)

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  2. I found the photo on this post, which pointed to this page at the National Museum of Health and medicine. Yes, it's a trichobezoar.

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  3. Sean, I don't consider a surgical incision to be offensive. I do try to warn people re trauma, war injuries, etc. But the human body, including malfomations, should elicit wonder, not repulsion.

    And if hairballs bother you, you must not own a cat...

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  4. this person must have been giving their twenty cats tongue baths.

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  5. Didn't say it was offensive, just not lunchtime fare. If I'm in the minority on that, I'm happy to pipe down.

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  6. Ideally, a Bovie was not used to make the initial gastrotomy, ha.....

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  7. (I thought you'd like that, Tim...)

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