Doctors Evacuated 750 grams of Hairball from A Woman's Stomach

These doctors removed the giant hairball from a patient (Picture: SWSW)

The giant hairball bounded itself into the shape of the victim’s son (Picture: SWNS)

This is the moment a humongous hairball was removed from a woman’s stomach by doctors.

The 20-year-old Indian woman was suffering from Rapunzel syndrome and the hairball weighed 750g.

The patient weighed just 30kg before undergoing surgery at V C Gandhi & M A Vora Municipal General Hospital at Rajawadi, Mumba.

Surgeon Dr Bharat Kamath said: ‘On examination, a hard lump was felt in the upper abdomen of the patient.

‘A CT scan showed a huge mass of hair, taking the shape of the stomach, extending through the duodenum into the upper small intestines.’

He added: ‘A psychiatric evaluation of the patent was done for trichotillomania – a disorder characterized by a long-term urge that results in the pulling out of one’s hair.’

The oval hairball was 25cm long and around 12cm wide.

The giant hairball bounded itself into the shape of the victim’s son (Picture: SWNS)

He added: ‘This is the first time such a case has been handled in our hospital, though there have been isolated cases elsewhere.

‘Small hairballs are very common; they do not require surgery and can be removed by an endoscopic procedure.

‘However, when it becomes a huge cast of mass taking the shape of the stomach, there remains little space for any equipment to go inside.’

Source: Metro UK