Acute abdomen due to ingestion of disposable syringes, pens, steel rods, blades, tooth brush, wooden sticks and screws by a schizophrenia patient – A case report

Background: The relationship between eating disorders and schizophrenia is not clear. In most of the cases where foreign body ingestion was observed in patients with schizophrenia, often some relation to their auditory hallucinations was observed. In some it may be due to their delusional beliefs. C...

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Main Author: Hareesh Angothu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2016-01-01
Series:Archives of Mental Health
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Online Access:http://www.amhonline.org/article.asp?issn=2589-9171;year=2016;volume=17;issue=1;spage=42;epage=44;aulast=Angothu;type=0