Deliberate ingestion of stones causing a diagnostic dilemma. A personal experience
Abstract
   Deliberate ingestion of foreign bodies is not a new subject especially in our society where such patients are neglected and their problems are rarely investigated properly. These kinds of problems usually have a compulsive driven and complicated elements involved which are very refractory to treatment and are often repetitive. Such a habit is mostly seen in children of very tender age but the situation is more worrisome when you come across adults who are otherwise considered normal but are found to have a deliberate compulsion to ingest funny things like papers, stones, jewelry and other injurious agents which can lead to life threatening complications. A very interesting case of a young girl is presented here which will certainly be beneficial to the surgeons as well as practitioners.
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