Case report: An unusual case of pica
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Nicholas Beecroft; Laura Bach; Nigel Tunstall; Robert Howard
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Pica is the persistent, culturally and developmentally inappropriate ingestion of non-nutritive substances (DSM-IV). AB is a 75-year-old lady with a 40-year history of schizophrenia and a 20-year history of pica who, at emergency laparotomy, had Β£175.32 of loose change in her stomach. Although pica