The woman suffered from a mental disorder which led her to tear out and chew the hair from her head
Published: Wed 22 Nov 2017, 12:06 PM
Updated: Wed 22 Nov 2017, 7:09 PM
After a three-hour-long surgery, a ball of hair weighing around 1.5 kg has been removed from the stomach of a 25-year-old woman at the government-run Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital in Indore.
Dr RK Mathur, who led the five-member team of doctors which conducted the surgery on Monday, said the woman's condition was stable.
The woman suffered from a mental disorder which led her to tear out and chew the hair from her head. Over a period of time the hair formed a hard lump inside the stomach, he told PTI.
Had the hair not been removed from her stomach, it would have caused a serious medical problem, Dr Mathur added.
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