[Abdominal complications of patients in the psychiatric department]
J Tu1
1Mental Hospital of Hunan province, Changsha.
Abstract:
This paper reported 114 cases of abdomen complication in inpatients of psychiatric department who be examined with ultrasonography. They amount to 4.19% of the total inpatients for the corresponding period (114/2723). Among them 36 cases (31.6%) relate to the special factors of psychiatric department, 4 cases (3.51%) did not said anything about abdominal pain when they suffering from diseases which are serious enough to fell abdominal pain for the common man. The author stressed that we must devote much attention to the physical examination for patients of psychiatric department.
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