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Girl With Rapunzel Syndrome
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Girl With Rapunzel Syndrome Ends Up Needing Surgery
Teen had 19-inch-long hairball that burst through her stomach
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- A teen with two rare conditions ended up in the hospital after passing out twice, and she left one huge hairball lighter. Live Science reports on the case out of the UK, where a 17-year-old girl showed up at the hospital after her fainting spells, her face and head bruised...
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5-Foot-Long Hairball Found Inside 15-Year-Old
She suffered from Rapunzel Syndrome
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- It's called the Rapunzel syndrome, but there's nothing fairytale-like about the condition. In layman's terms, it's a massive hairball that extends from one's stomach into the small intestine or beyond. As io9 explained in 2013, hair is made of keratin, a substance so steely that...
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- Humanity pulls appalling stunts so routinely they're the norm, but some things are truly disturbing. Cracked runs down a list of the seven most terrifying things to ever be pulled from a human body:
A hairball:
Surgeons pulled a 10-pound, foot-long one out of 18-year-old woman in Chicago in 2007.
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