Self harm through foreign bodies ingestion – rare cause of digestive perforation • JML Journal of Medicine and Life

2014, Volume 7, Issue 2, pp 246 – 253

Self harm through foreign bodies ingestion – rare cause of digestive perforation

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Petrea S

Brezean I

"I. Juvara" Surgery Clinic, "Dr. I. Cantacuzino" Hospital, Bucharest

Correspondence to:Sorin Petrea, MD, "Dr. I. Cantacuzino" Hospital, 5-7 Ion Movila Street, 020475, Bucharest, Romania, Phone: 021/2107100, Fax: 021/2106435, E-mail: sorinviorelpetrea@yahoo.com

Abstract

Self-harm is a rare pathology, often seen in psychiatric patients but more frequently in the penitentiary environment. Of the many possible forms of self-harm, foreign bodies (FB) ingestion is by far the most usual in the Romanian prison environment. The paper aims to present the diagnostic and therapeutic aspects arising as a consequence of the digestive tract perforations consequent upon foreign bodies ingestion; a number of 45 cases which occurred over a 7-year period (2003-2010) in “Rahova” Penitentiary Hospital, were analyzed. We also examined the surgical particularities of case resolution.

Abbreviations: FB = foreign bodies, EEA = end-to-end anastomosis

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self-harmingestionforeign bodies

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Article Publishing Date (print): 15-06-2014
Available Online: 25-06-2014

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ISSN Printing: 1844-122X
ISSN Online: 1844-3117
Journal Title: Journal of Medicine and Life

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