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Foreign bodies in the sigmoid colon of a psychiatric patient following self-mutilation: a case report

BACKGROUND: The act of deliberate injury to one’s own body without the help of others is a well-known phenomenon in psychiatric patients. Insertion of foreign bodies into one or more orifices is not uncommon but insertion into a body cavity or the gastrointestinal tract by self-inflicted injury is q...

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Autor principal: Gebresellassie, Hailu Wondimu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5027084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27639977
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-016-1044-y