ACTA MEDICA
ACTA MEDICA
Acta Medica (Hradec Králové) is an English language multidisciplinary medical journal. Acta Medica publishes reviews, original articles, brief communications, case reports, announcements, and notices. The journal was founded in 1958 under the title “A Collection of Scientific Works of the Charles University’s Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové”. The journal is indexed in Chemical Abstracts, CNKI, DOAJ, EBSCO, Hinari, Index Medicus, MEDLINE, Scopus, and Ulrichsweb.

ACTA MEDICA, Vol 62 No 3 (2019), 85–93

Foreign Bodies in the Abdominal Area: Review of the Literature

Evangelos Nastoulis, Maria-Valeria Karakasi, Maria Alexandri, Vasileios Thomaidis, Aliki Fiska, Pavlos Pavlidis

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/18059694.2019.130
published online: 30. 10. 2019

abstract

The aim of this paper is to update and summarize the relevant literature on the anatomical localization, incidence, and diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to abdominal foreign bodies. A comprehensive review was carried out on recorded cases related to the presence of foreign bodies in the abdominal area throughout the literature. Moreover, the phenomenon was discussed in relation to different patient categories associated with childhood, mental or neurological illness, incarceration, and drug trafficking as well as sexual accident or abuse. Particular importance is ascribed to the underlying psychopathology and motivation of foreign body ingestion in each category of patients. The surgical, psychiatric and legal implications of the issue are discussed in detail.

keywords: foreign bodies; intra-abdominal; ingestion; surgery; endoscopy; pica; body packers; gossypiboma; forensic pathology; legal medicine

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