Fluoroscopy
What is trichobezoar?
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Hair ball (due to plucked and ingested hair)
Cause of mottled appearance?
Air trapped within the undigested material.
D/Ds for mottled appearance of stomach on barium study
Bezoar; food particles (barium given after a meal)
Complications of bezoar?
obstruction; ulceration; hemorrhage; hematemesis
A spot film on fluoroscopic study shows a barium filled stomach with mutiple areas of filling defects giving a mottled appearance.