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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Case Report
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
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description 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 importance of quick response and good collaboration between psychiatric and ophthalmic teams.
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spelling pubmed-41898412014-10-19 Unsuccessful Self-Enucleation in a Schizophrenic Patient Bar-Yaakov, Noam Noy Achiron, Romi Paul, Michael Achiron, Asaf Case Rep Ophthalmol Med Case Report 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 importance of quick response and good collaboration between psychiatric and ophthalmic teams. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4189841/ /pubmed/25328735 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/237214 Text en Copyright © 2014 Noam Bar-Yaakov et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/237214
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