Intrascrotal self insertion of foreign body: Form of entry to schizophrenia

A 23-year-old boy was referred to Urology because of a nail self insertion on the scrotum. Examination revealed a visible big nail within the scrotum, lateralized to the right at 1 cm from the median raphe. Scrotal exploration and debridement of non-viable tissue was performed, and no testicular or...

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Autores principales: Trigui, Mohamed, Ouanes, Yassine, Chaker, Kays, Marrak, Mahdi, Madani, Mohamed anouar, Nouira, Yassine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Trauma and Reconstruction
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10320513/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37416749
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2023.102473
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author Trigui, Mohamed
Ouanes, Yassine
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Marrak, Mahdi
Madani, Mohamed anouar
Nouira, Yassine
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description A 23-year-old boy was referred to Urology because of a nail self insertion on the scrotum. Examination revealed a visible big nail within the scrotum, lateralized to the right at 1 cm from the median raphe. Scrotal exploration and debridement of non-viable tissue was performed, and no testicular or surrounding structure injury was found. Referred to a psychiatrist the diagnosis of schizophrenia was retained in our patient in front of several arguments including the self-mutilation and his psychiatrist concluded that this was secondary to delusions.
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spelling pubmed-103205132023-07-06 Intrascrotal self insertion of foreign body: Form of entry to schizophrenia Trigui, Mohamed Ouanes, Yassine Chaker, Kays Marrak, Mahdi Madani, Mohamed anouar Nouira, Yassine Urol Case Rep Trauma and Reconstruction A 23-year-old boy was referred to Urology because of a nail self insertion on the scrotum. Examination revealed a visible big nail within the scrotum, lateralized to the right at 1 cm from the median raphe. Scrotal exploration and debridement of non-viable tissue was performed, and no testicular or surrounding structure injury was found. Referred to a psychiatrist the diagnosis of schizophrenia was retained in our patient in front of several arguments including the self-mutilation and his psychiatrist concluded that this was secondary to delusions. Elsevier 2023-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10320513/ /pubmed/37416749 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2023.102473 Text en © 2023 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_sort intrascrotal self insertion of foreign body: form of entry to schizophrenia
topic Trauma and Reconstruction
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10320513/
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