Life-threatening pica: Liver abscess from perforating foreign body

Australasian Radiology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 349-352

  Perkins, Melissa ^a   Lovell, Joseph ^b   Gruenewald, Simon ^a  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b CUMBERLAND HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abscess; Foreign body; Liver; Pica; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DUODENUM PERFORATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; LIVER ABSCESS; MALE; PICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; DUODENOSCOPY; DUODENUM; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; LIVER ABSCESS; MALE; PICA; RUPTURE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF MUTILATION; SUCTION;

EID: 0032813497     PISSN: 00048461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1673.1999.433670.x     Document Type: Article

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