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Surgeons performed an hour-and-a-half-long operation to remove a huge ball of hair from a 12-year-old girl’s stomach

March 16, 2023
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The head of the pediatric surgery department at Podolsk hospital, Rimma Romashkina, revealed details of the operation of a 12-year-old girl, whose stomach was removed from a 600-gram hairball.

The find occupied 2/3 of the stomach and entered the duodenum, the interlocutor added NEWS.ru . The girl was operated on at the Moscow Regional Clinical Research Institute (MONIKI) named after. Vladimirsky.

The procedure lasted an hour and a half. The girl managed to remove everything superfluous. She is now in rehab. Also, the girl may need help from a psychotherapist, Rimma Romashkina added. It is known that in the stomach of the patient, in addition to hair, they found threads, as well as the remains of undigested food.

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