Acute abdominal pain revealing lithophagia

Abstract

We report the case of a 24-year-old patient with cognitive impairment admitted to the emergency department for acute abdominal pain and for whom the imaging revealed several digestive stones, in the absence of complications the treatment was monitored with lubricants with the elimination of all stones and good clinical evolution. This psychiatric disorder is rare and known as lithophagia and requires psychiatric monitoring and follow-up.

Keywords

• lithophagia
• pica
• abdominal pain