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The mass was 2-inches in sizing and was causing the woman severe pain. ( AsiaWire)

There are certain risk factors that may make a patient more at risk for developing bezoars, including having gastric surgery, lessened stomach sizing, diabetes, end-stage kidney disease, and requiring mechanical ventilation assistant to aid in breathing. There are several types of bezoars that are classified based on the materials that form them.

A phytobezoar, like the kind the patient in this case had, is comprised of indigestible food fibers. A trichobezoar is comprised of hair or hair-like fibers, and pharmacobezoars are composed of drugs that don’t properly dissolve in the digestive tract.

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Bezoars can cause a lack of appetite, nausea, vomiting, weight loss and feeling of fullness, are in accordance with MayoClinic . In more severe cases they can cause gastric ulcers, intestinal bleeding and blockage, and even tissue death in the digestive system.

While they sometimes may pass on their own, other patients may require medication to help dissolve the mass or even surgery. In this case of this patient, who was identified as Ms. Zhang, her doctor first ordered an endoscopy to ascertain what exactly the bezoar was.

Once her doctor, Zhu Zhen, determined that it was a bezoar, which had formed as a result of her diet consisting of persimmon fruits and crab meat, he prescribed ultrasound shock wave therapy to help break the mass apart, AsiaWire reported.

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It was not clear how long the patient was hospitalized for , nor if she was told to stay away from eating persimmons and crab meat.