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The swallowed toothbrush: a radiographic clue of bulimia
M M Riddlesberger1, H L Cohen, P L Glick
1Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Buffalo, New York.
Pediatric Radiology
|January 11, 1991
Abstract:
Swallowed toothbrushes were noted in the esophagus of one teenager and the stomach of two others with bulimia. The presence of a toothbrush in the lumen of the gastrointestinal tract should make the radiologist suspicious of bulimia/anorexia nervosa. A toothbrush shows a characteristic radiographic image with parallel rows of short metallic radiodensities due to the metallic plates that hold the bristles in place.