GENITAL SELF AMPUTATION FOR URINARY SYMPTOM RELIEF OR SUICIDE?

Complete combined amputation of penis and scrotum has been rarely reported. A case of an elderly male with complete genital mutilation is presented with the complexities of the phenomena. He was suffering from severe depressive episode and had experienced multiple events related to urinary system. H...

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Autores principales: Mishra, Baikunthanath, Kar, Nilamadhab
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2001
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2956245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21407884
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description Complete combined amputation of penis and scrotum has been rarely reported. A case of an elderly male with complete genital mutilation is presented with the complexities of the phenomena. He was suffering from severe depressive episode and had experienced multiple events related to urinary system. His vulnerability to self injurious behaviour had been established by past suicide attempt. Gross impairment of judgement and depressive cognitions were instrumental in precipitating such behaviour. Related literatures are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-29562452011-03-15 GENITAL SELF AMPUTATION FOR URINARY SYMPTOM RELIEF OR SUICIDE? Mishra, Baikunthanath Kar, Nilamadhab Indian J Psychiatry Case Report Complete combined amputation of penis and scrotum has been rarely reported. A case of an elderly male with complete genital mutilation is presented with the complexities of the phenomena. He was suffering from severe depressive episode and had experienced multiple events related to urinary system. His vulnerability to self injurious behaviour had been established by past suicide attempt. Gross impairment of judgement and depressive cognitions were instrumental in precipitating such behaviour. Related literatures are discussed. Medknow Publications 2001 /pmc/articles/PMC2956245/ /pubmed/21407884 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Mishra, Baikunthanath
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GENITAL SELF AMPUTATION FOR URINARY SYMPTOM RELIEF OR SUICIDE?
title GENITAL SELF AMPUTATION FOR URINARY SYMPTOM RELIEF OR SUICIDE?
title_full GENITAL SELF AMPUTATION FOR URINARY SYMPTOM RELIEF OR SUICIDE?
title_fullStr GENITAL SELF AMPUTATION FOR URINARY SYMPTOM RELIEF OR SUICIDE?
title_full_unstemmed GENITAL SELF AMPUTATION FOR URINARY SYMPTOM RELIEF OR SUICIDE?
title_short GENITAL SELF AMPUTATION FOR URINARY SYMPTOM RELIEF OR SUICIDE?
title_sort genital self amputation for urinary symptom relief or suicide?
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2956245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21407884
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