Author(s) Details:
Priya Ahuja
Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bathinda, Punjab, India
Divakar Goyal
Department of Trauma and Emergency, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bathinda, Punjab, India.
This section is a part of the chapter: Challenges in Diagnosing and Managing Self-Embedding Behavior: A Rare Case Report
On rectal examination, a buttonhole defect was identified, and the tip of the needle was palpated at the 6 o’clock position. Given the suspected rectal injury, a rectal contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) scan was performed, revealing an injury to the extraperitoneal rectum without evidence of contrast extravasation.
In the operating room, the foreign body was successfully removed. A fistulogram was then performed, which demonstrated a fistulous tract extending from the gluteal skin to the gluteus muscle, with contrast extravasation from a defect in the extraperitoneal rectum, located 7 cm from the anal verge
How to Cite
Ahuja, P., & Goyal, D. (2025). Challenges in Diagnosing and Managing Self-Embedding Behavior: A Rare Case Report. Medical Science: Trends and Innovations Vol. 4, 94–100. https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/msti/v4/4203