
There is a rare but disturbing trend among some young women.
It's really only come to light in the past few years because of how their bodies light up in an ultrasound.
An estimated 15 to 20 percent of people have engaged in some form of self injury.
Cutting is the most common form, a practice that leaves visible scars.
A much more rare problem is something called self-embedding.
That's when people, mostly teen girls, insert small items deep into their skin, like paper clips, toothpicks, pencil lead, glass and small plastic objects.
Radiologists at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio stumbled upon this self-embedding behavior while studying ultrasound data.




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