Radiologists Diagnose And Treat Self-Embedding Disorder In Teens, Nationwide Children’s Hospital Study

EurekAlert! -- CHICAGO – 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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