Adult-Onset Pica Leading to Acute Intestinal Obstruction

Psychosomatics

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 393-394

  Stroman, Devin ^a,b   Young, Chainllie ^a   Rubano, Angelo R ^c   Pinkhasov, Aaron ^a  

^a KINGSBROOK JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ST GEORGE S UNIVERSITY   (Grenada)

^c Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SERTRALINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ADULT DISEASE; ANXIETY DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CLOTHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROTOMY; LETTER; PICA; SIGMOID; VOMITING; ONSET AGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; PICA;

EID: 84856400114     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: 15457206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2011.01.031     Document Type: Letter

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