posted on 2021-03-03, 12:30authored byAidan G. Shaw, Oliver Peacock, Jonathan N. Lund, Gillian M. Tierney, MICHAEL LARVINMICHAEL LARVIN, William Speake
We report a case of a 79 year old man with a known benign anastomotic stricture presenting with
large bowel obstruction. At laparotomy the obstruction was found to be caused by a large sesame
seed bezoar. Seed bezoars are well known to cause impaction in the rectum but have never been
previously reported to cause large bowel obstruction. We recommend that patients with known
large bowel strictures should be advised not to eat seeds as this could ultimately lead to
obstruction, ischaemia or perforation