Intentional Foreign Body Ingestion: A Complex Case of Pica

Recurrent Intentional Foreign Body Ingestion: An Endoscopist's Dilemma.

Patient #1 A 22-year-old African American male presented with abdominal pain and coffee ground vomitus after allegedly swallowing a pocketknife. The patient had been feeling depressed and had run out of his medications (duloxetine hydrochloride [Cymbalta, Lilly] and haloperidol) prior to the foreign body ingestion. His psychiatric history included major depression, borderline personality disord...

Intentional Retained Colorectal Foreign Body: A Case Report

A 45-year-old prisoner violently inserted a 30 cm bottle into his rectum in the prison. He complained of lower abdominal fullness and inability to pass stool. His vital signs were stable and the abdominal examination did not reveal any peritoneal sign. Multiple longitudinal ulcer like anal fissures were also remarkable in different positions of the anal wall extending to the rectum. Attempts we...

intentional retained colorectal foreign body: a case report

a 45-year-old prisoner violently inserted a 30 cm bottle into his rectum in the prison. he complained of lower abdominal fullness and inability to pass stool. his vital signs were stable and the abdominal examination did not reveal any peritoneal sign. multiple longitudinal ulcer like anal fissures were also remarkable in different positions of the anal wall extending to the rectum. attempts we...

Multiple foreign body ingestion.

Intentional ingestion and insertion of foreign objects: a forensic perspective.

Intentional ingestion and insertion of foreign objects is a topic that has generated mounting interest among medical professionals over the past two decades. When featured in the literature, it has been typically discussed in medical subdisciplines, such as emergency medicine, surgery, gastroenterology, and urology. However, in-depth exploration of this multidimensional phenomenon in the field ...