Intra-abdominal insertion of sewing needles: a rare method of child abuse

The insertion of sewing needles into the abdominal cavity is an uncommon form of child abuse. We report a 2-and-a-half-year-old boy with 2 intra-abdominal sewing needles that were discovered during the evaluation of chronic abdominal pain and vomiting. This case report illustrates the wide range wit...

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Autores principales: Alshamrani, Hussain, Bakhswain, Amal, Habib, Zakaria, Kattan, Hoda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6074881/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24188948
http://dx.doi.org/10.5144/0256-4947.2013.505
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author Alshamrani, Hussain
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description The insertion of sewing needles into the abdominal cavity is an uncommon form of child abuse. We report a 2-and-a-half-year-old boy with 2 intra-abdominal sewing needles that were discovered during the evaluation of chronic abdominal pain and vomiting. This case report illustrates the wide range with which abusive injury can present in children. Pediatricians need to be alerted to this newly-recognized and the increasing form of child abuse so that they examine and diagnose their patients appropriately.
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spelling pubmed-60748812018-09-21 Intra-abdominal insertion of sewing needles: a rare method of child abuse Alshamrani, Hussain Bakhswain, Amal Habib, Zakaria Kattan, Hoda Ann Saudi Med Case Report The insertion of sewing needles into the abdominal cavity is an uncommon form of child abuse. We report a 2-and-a-half-year-old boy with 2 intra-abdominal sewing needles that were discovered during the evaluation of chronic abdominal pain and vomiting. This case report illustrates the wide range with which abusive injury can present in children. Pediatricians need to be alerted to this newly-recognized and the increasing form of child abuse so that they examine and diagnose their patients appropriately. King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC6074881/ /pubmed/24188948 http://dx.doi.org/10.5144/0256-4947.2013.505 Text en Copyright © 2013, Annals of Saudi Medicine This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) .
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6074881/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24188948
http://dx.doi.org/10.5144/0256-4947.2013.505
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