A 17-year-old girl presented with bilious vomiting and abdominal pain to the surgery department. The history was positive for trichotillomania and trichophagia. A CT scan showed a mass in the stomach, which was highly suspicious for a gastric bezoar. Drooping parts of the bezoar caused a duodenal obstruction with secondary acute pancreatitis. The bezoar was removed via a laparoscopically performed gastrotomy.
Juvenile spring eruption (JSE) is a rare pruritic photodermatosis that typically manifests on light-exposed areas of the ears and predominantly affects boys or young men. 1 It is considered a distinctive variant of polymorphic light eruption occurring in springtime after exposure to bright sunlight during cold weather. 2 As JSE tends to appear in small outbreaks, concomitant triggers have been postulated in the pathogenesis of the disease besides the well-established exposure to UV light. We report a case of JSE associated with parvovirus B19 infection.
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