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Case Reports
. 2024 Jul 28;196(26):E906-E907.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.240393.

Pica in a patient with schizophrenia

Luigi Iuliano  1 , Iacopo Carbone  2 , Giuseppe Cavallaro  2
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Pica in a patient with schizophrenia

Luigi Iuliano et al. CMAJ. .
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Competing interests:: None declared.

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Figure 1:
Figure 1:
Computed tomography scan of the abdomen of a 42-year-old man, showing material at the gastric endoluminal site causing beam-hardening artifacts related to the presence of ingested objects.
Figure 2:
Figure 2:
Photograph of the many plastic, wooden, and metal objects that were surgically removed from the patient’s stomach.
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