Table 2.
Published series of intentional ingestion of foreign objects with patient treatment plans when available n (%)
| Ref. | Year | Patients (n) | Not undergoing intervention | With psych dx | Surgery | Endoscopy | Objects ingested (n) |
| O’Sullivan et al[1] | 1996 | 36 (20 prisoners) | 31 (86) | 6 (16) | 2 (6) | 4 (11) | 308 |
| 1Dalal et al[2] | 2013 | 30 (141 episodes) | 33 (23) | 27 (19) | 11 (7) | 97 (68) | 649 |
| 1Weiland et al[3] | 2002 | 22 (256 episodes) | 23 (9) | 10 (4) | 64 (25) | 256 | |
| Barros et al[4] | 1991 | 167 (39 prisoners) | 14 (8) | 6 (3) | 51 (30) | 117 (70) | 167 |
| Selivanov et al[8] | 1984 | 100 | 42 (42) | 4 (6) | 12 (12) | 42 (42) | 101 |
| Blaho et al[13] | 1998 | 8 | 8 (100) | 6 (75) | 14 | ||
| Velitchkov et al[14] | 1996 | 542 (379 prisoners) | 410 (75) | 124 (23) | 26 (5) | 19 (3) | 1203 |
| Karp et al[15] | 1991 | 19 | 18 (95) | ||||
| 1Lee et al[17] | 2007 | 33 (52 episodes) | 0 | 6 (12) | 46 (88) | 104 | |
| Bisharat et al[18] | 2008 | 11 | 7 (63) | 3 (27) | 2 (18) | ||
| Huang et al[19] | 2010 | 33 | 4 (12) | 27 (81) | 2 (6) | 299 | 305 |
| Ribas et al[20] | 2014 | 82 | 142 | 62 (75) | 5 (6) | 15 (18) | 162 |
| Grimes et al[7] | 2013 | 159 (23 prisoners) | 34 (21) | 5 (3) | 231 | 254 | |
| Total | 2613 | 1014 (39) | 317 (12) | 190 (7) | 1129 (43) | 3153 |
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Many presented with multiple episodes. Not all studies reported all data. Some studies may include some non-intentional ingestions.