title: Self harm through foreign bodies ingestion - a rare cause of digestive perforation.
abstract: 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.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  FB - foreign bodies, EEA - end-to-end anastomosis.
authors.affiliation: "I. Juvara" Surgery Clinic, "Dr .I. Cantacuzino" Hospital, Bucharest.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Petrea
authors.affiliation: "I. Juvara" Surgery Clinic, "Dr .I. Cantacuzino" Hospital, Bucharest.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Brezean
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D003679:Deglutition; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007416:Intestinal Perforation / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012383:Romania / Q000453:epidemiology; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D012737:Sex Factors; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods
keywords: foreign bodies; ingestion; self-harm