Girl With Rapunzel Syndrome Ends Up Needing Surgery – Newser
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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 from the resulting falls. Per a case study documented in BMJ Case Reports, the teen also mentioned she’d had stomach pains off and on for five months, and that they’d gotten worse over the past two weeks. A CT scan showed…
