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Unsuccessful Self-Enucleation in a Schizophrenic Patient

Self-enucleation is a very unusual form of self-mutilation directly linked to mental illness. In this case we present a 26-year-old schizophrenic patient who attempted to enucleate his eye with a rollerball pen. Antipsychotic therapy and emergency surgery saved the patient eye and emphasize the impo...

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Autores principales: Bar-Yaakov, Noam, Noy Achiron, Romi, Paul, Michael, Achiron, Asaf
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4189841/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25328735
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/237214