COVID-19 and psychiatric illness: rectal foreign bodies (30 stylus batteries) in a young male patient affected by Asperger syndrome

Here we present the case of a 17-year-old male patient, affected by Asperger syndrome, who reached the emergency division of our hospital after anal insertion of some stylus batteries. Transanal extraction of 30 stylus batteries avoided surgical intervention. Lockdown and boredom due to the strict d...

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Autores principales: Lovisetto, Federico, Guala, Andrea, Facciotto, Giuseppe, Zonta, Sandro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7568960/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33101637
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjaa345
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author Lovisetto, Federico
Guala, Andrea
Facciotto, Giuseppe
Zonta, Sandro
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description Here we present the case of a 17-year-old male patient, affected by Asperger syndrome, who reached the emergency division of our hospital after anal insertion of some stylus batteries. Transanal extraction of 30 stylus batteries avoided surgical intervention. Lockdown and boredom due to the strict domestic quarantine policies adopted during COVID-19 pandemic might have unmasked in our patient a susceptibility to unhealthy behaviour.
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spelling pubmed-75689602020-10-22 COVID-19 and psychiatric illness: rectal foreign bodies (30 stylus batteries) in a young male patient affected by Asperger syndrome Lovisetto, Federico Guala, Andrea Facciotto, Giuseppe Zonta, Sandro J Surg Case Rep Case Report Here we present the case of a 17-year-old male patient, affected by Asperger syndrome, who reached the emergency division of our hospital after anal insertion of some stylus batteries. Transanal extraction of 30 stylus batteries avoided surgical intervention. Lockdown and boredom due to the strict domestic quarantine policies adopted during COVID-19 pandemic might have unmasked in our patient a susceptibility to unhealthy behaviour. Oxford University Press 2020-10-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7568960/ /pubmed/33101637 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjaa345 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author(s) 2020. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Lovisetto, Federico
Guala, Andrea
Facciotto, Giuseppe
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COVID-19 and psychiatric illness: rectal foreign bodies (30 stylus batteries) in a young male patient affected by Asperger syndrome
title COVID-19 and psychiatric illness: rectal foreign bodies (30 stylus batteries) in a young male patient affected by Asperger syndrome
title_full COVID-19 and psychiatric illness: rectal foreign bodies (30 stylus batteries) in a young male patient affected by Asperger syndrome
title_fullStr COVID-19 and psychiatric illness: rectal foreign bodies (30 stylus batteries) in a young male patient affected by Asperger syndrome
title_full_unstemmed COVID-19 and psychiatric illness: rectal foreign bodies (30 stylus batteries) in a young male patient affected by Asperger syndrome
title_short COVID-19 and psychiatric illness: rectal foreign bodies (30 stylus batteries) in a young male patient affected by Asperger syndrome
title_sort covid-19 and psychiatric illness: rectal foreign bodies (30 stylus batteries) in a young male patient affected by asperger syndrome
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7568960/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33101637
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjaa345
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