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Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical cause of abdominal pain, but it is important to understand that other rare conditions can also be life-threatening. Case presentation: We report the case of a 6-year-old girl who presented to our pediatric emergency center with complaints of acute abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea. She had no notable medical history, including perinatal, surgical, or psychiatric disorders. After finding a bezoar-like structure through a combined enteritis CT scan, reassessing the child\u2019s dietary concerns revealed that the child had experienced symptoms of trichophagia for approximately 3 to 4 years. Enterotomy and the removal of the bezoar were successfully performed. A pediatric psychiatric consultation was carried out to prevent further trichophagia-induced complications. Conclusions: Despite our patient\u2019s relatively young age and the failure to obtain a history of trichophagia at the onset, we successfully diagnosed a rare condition called Rapunzel syndrome. Although several cases of this condition have been reported by pediatric surgeons, we emphasize the role of physicians in pediatric emergency departments when examining children with this rare syndrome.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/pediatric17030053","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,1]],"date-time":"2025-05-01T03:50:43Z","timestamp":1746071443000},"page":"53","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Acute Abdominal Pain with Obstructing Trichobezoar: A Pediatric Case of Rapunzel Syndrome Diagnosed in a Pediatric Emergency Department"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3613-1075","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sung-Ha","family":"Kim","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Emergency Medicine, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University School of Medicine, Seongnam 13497, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4280-9396","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jong-In","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatric Surgery, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University School of Medicine, Seongnam 13497, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Soohyun","family":"Park","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Emergency Medicine, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University School of Medicine, Seongnam 13497, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"So-Hyun","family":"Paek","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Emergency Medicine, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University School of Medicine, Seongnam 13497, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"2321","article-title":"Acute abdominal pain in children","volume":"67","author":"Leung","year":"2003","journal-title":"Am. 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