title: [Pica and intestinal occlusion: a clinical case].
abstract: Accidental or voluntary foreign bodies ingestion is a frequent reported event in emergency departments. Complication, foreign body shape related are not often observed and, once occurred, just few a cases need an open surgery approach, about 1%. The Authors report the case of a young woman with pica admitted to their Department in an emergency setting for acute intestinal obstruction due to the ingestion of not specified amount of elastics, which required an open surgery operation.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Chirurgia Pietro Valdoni, S.S. Chirurgia d'Urgenza 1, Università degli Studi La Sapienza di Roma.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Assenza
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: De Angelis
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Romagnoli
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Caramanico
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Miccini
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Borromeo
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Ruggiero
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Tomei
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sadighi
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Modini
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001630:Bezoars / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D010842:Pica / Q000150:complications*