Radiologists diagnose and treat self-embedding disorder in teens

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 - 05:10 in Health & Medicine

Minimally invasive, image-guided treatment is a safe and precise method for removal of self-inflicted foreign objects from the body, according to the first report on 'self-embedding disorder,' or self-injury and self-inflicted foreign body insertion in adolescents. The findings will be presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)...

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