Citation

Petrea S, Brezean I. J. Med. Life 2014; 7(1): 67-74.

Affiliation

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

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Carol Davila University Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

24653761

PMCID

PMC3956100

Abstract

UNLABELLED: 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. Our paper aims to present the diagnostic and therapeutic aspects arising as a consequence of digestive tract perforations consequent upon foreign bodies ingestion; we analyze a number of 45 cases which occurred over a 7-year period (2003-2010) in Rahova Penitentiary Hospital. We also examined the surgical particularities of case resolution. ABBREVIATIONS: FB - foreign bodies, EEA - end-to-end anastomosis.

Language: en