A RARE CASE OF EXTRALUMINAL FOREIGN BODY CAUSING INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION IN SCHIZHOPHRENIA

: A 44 year male , a known case of schizophrenia , presented with complaints of vomiting and constipation since 3 days. Patient with signs of peritonitis was taken up for emergency laparotomy with a preoperative diagnosis of small bowel obstruction. Per operatively it was found that a broom stick about 15 cm was lodged extra luminally in the mesentery and a loop of small bowel was encircling it and got obstructed without any intraluminal pathology, The foreign body was extracted and intestinal obstructon was relieved. Post op period was uneventful. Habitual per rectal insertion of broom sticks to relive constipation was the cause .