Médecine et Santé Tropicales
MENUEndoscopic aspects of toxic ingestions during attempted suicides at Lome Campus teaching hospital (Togo) Volume 24, issue 4, October-November-December 2014
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Service d’hépato-gastro-entérologie, CHU Campus Lomé, BP 61842 Lomé, Togo
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- Key words: suicidal attempt, epidemiology, clinical, upper digestive endoscopy, Togo
- DOI : 10.1684/mst.2014.0390
- Page(s) : 432-4
- Published in: 2014
The frequency of attempted suicides is underestimated here because most patients are admitted to the internal medicine or psychiatric departments. Caustic substances were the main substances used and caused severe lesions.