Abstract
The ingestion of foreign bodies is a condition frequently encountered, particularly in patients with psychiatric history. In this article, we discuss the case of a 23-year-old patient with chronic alcohol and tobacco use and drug addiction, without notable psychiatric history, who presents to the emergency department for foreign body ingestion with the aim of self-destruction, accompanied by epigastric and periumbilical pain, as well as an episode of rectal bleeding. He was initially managed by gastroenterologists and underwent three attempts to extract foreign bodies via endoscopy. However, it was decided to remove the remaining foreign bodies via laparoscopy due to difficulties encountered during endoscopy. The patient was admitted to the surgical department and underwent gastric foreign body extraction under laparoscopic surgery. During exploration, there was a noted distension of the transverse colon estimated at 8 cm, and foreign bodies were perceived in the stomach at the level of the greater curvature.
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