Small Bowel Obstruction Secondary to a Mushroom Bezoar: Case Report

Summary A bezoar is an accumulation of indigestible exogenous matter in the stomach and the intestine. The clinical diagnosis of bezoar is challenging, and initial radiographs are frequently nondiagnostic. Computed tomography (CT) has become a useful method in diagnosing the presence and cause of small bowel obstruction. The most common CT finding of phytobezoars includes a round or ovoid mass containing mottled gas at the obstructed site. We report one case of small bowel obstruction secondary to bezoar that is composed of mushroom, but without a characteristic bezoar CT imaging.