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This case report documents a rare instance of Rapunzel syndrome causing biliary obstruction in a 3-year-old girl, highlighting the importance of considering trichobezoar in cholestasis diagnosis.

This report describes the second documented case in England of a 14-year-old Asian girl with Rapunzel syndrome, underlining the importance of suspicion to prevent delayed diagnosis in similar patients.

This case report describes the successful surgical removal of a trichobezoar in an 8-year-old girl, which extended from her stomach into the duodenum.

This article discusses traction alopecia in children and adolescents, emphasizing its occurrence due to hairstyles that exert chronic tension on hair, but reports no new findings.

This case report describes a rare instance of Rapunzel syndrome in a six-year-old girl, highlighting the importance of early recognition and treatment to prevent serious complications.

This study provides a comprehensive review of trichotillomania, focusing on its clinical symptoms, etiology, diagnostics, and treatment methods, while also addressing serious complications like trichobezoars and Rapunzel Syndrome.

In this case report, the authors describe a rare instance of Rapunzel syndrome in an 8-year-old girl presenting with a large trichobezoar extending from the stomach into the jejunum, linked to trichotillomania and trichophagia, highlighting the need for psychiatric management to prevent recurrence.

Hair can't be as strong as Rapunzel's because it's impractical to scale up due to defects.

This case report describes a 16-year-old girl with Rapunzel syndrome, where a trichobezoar presented as an abdominal lump, emphasizing the need for surgical removal and psychiatric evaluation to prevent recurrence.

This case report documents a rare fatal instance of Rapunzel syndrome in a child, highlighting the use of postmortem CT and MRI to reveal trichobezoar-related bowel obstructions and perforations as the cause of death.

This case study reports a rare occurrence of a large trichobezoar in a 3-year-old male, who presented with a thread protruding from his mouth without any signs of hair loss.

In this case report, a 12-year-old girl with underlying sickle-thalassemia and familial stress presented with Rapunzel syndrome, a rare gastric trichobezoar, causing generalized swelling and severe anemia, which improved after surgical intervention and multidisciplinary care.

This study reports ten cases of non-marginal traction alopecia in women with very long hair, which was improved with shorter hair cuts and topical minoxidil application.

This case report describes a 4-year-old girl with Rapunzel syndrome, presenting with severe anemia and a contained perforation, who underwent successful surgical removal of a large gastric trichobezoar.

This case report detailed a rare diagnosis of Rapunzel syndrome, where intussusception in a young girl was caused by trichobezoars linked to undiagnosed trichotillomania and trichophagia.

This case report highlights a rare instance of gastric trichobezoar, or "Rapunzel syndrome," associated with trichotillomania, characterized by hair accumulation in the stomach of a patient.

This case report describes a rare instance of a patient with trichotillomania also developing a gastric trichobezoar, leading to Rapunzel syndrome.

The document concludes that understanding hair biology is key to treating hair disorders, with gene therapy showing potential as a future treatment.

This report describes a case where a gluten-free diet may have resolved trichotillomania in a young patient, suggesting a relationship between celiac disease and certain behavioral disorders.

This case report describes a 7-year-old girl initially misdiagnosed with SMA syndrome, but later found to have a gastric trichobezoar via EGD, highlighting the diagnostic challenges in children with nonspecific symptoms.

This review details the causes, symptoms, and treatments for dandruff, emphasizing herbal ingredients with anti-dandruff properties used in shampoos and exploring their antifungal and anti-inflammatory mechanisms. It highlights dandruff's exploitation by personal care companies due to the lack of medical interventions.

This case report describes a 23-year-old African-American woman who suffered a small bowel obstruction after ingesting hair from a hair weave, highlighting a specific risk associated with trichophagia in Black hair care practices.

This case report highlights a small bowel obstruction from hair ingestion in an African American woman, emphasizing the need for cultural awareness of Black hairstyles in trichotillomania and trichophagia.

This study demonstrated that enhancing human skin constructs with hair follicles through engineered cell organization and vascularization improved hair growth in immunodeficient mice, suggesting potential advances for treating alopecia and chronic wounds.

This review discusses the significant burden of disease and psychosocial implications associated with alopecia, highlighting its comorbidities and the impact on quality of life despite being viewed traditionally as an aesthetic concern, but reports no clinical results.

This review discusses the diagnostic and treatment challenges of trichotillomania and emphasizes the need for better-designed studies to optimize treatment approaches.

This review discusses the structure and regenerative potential of hair follicles, highlighting their role in wound healing, stem cell populations, and keratin-based biomaterials, but it reports no new clinical results.

The article concludes that the global hair trade is exploitative and reflects complex cultural and economic issues.

This observational study provides cause-specific mortality estimates to help patients and physicians better understand long-term outcomes for localized prostate cancer based on initial treatment choices.

This review examines psychosomatic hair diseases, discussing their classification, implications, and the need for tailored psychosomatic therapy, without reporting new clinical results.