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A very unusual case of attempted suicide
We would like to present a case report of a very unusual suicide attempt. A 48-year-old female patient tried to commit suicide by stabbing herself with a kitchen knife into her neck. Suicide by self-stabbing is uncommon, constituting only 1-3% of suicide attempts. Patients with self-inflicted stab w...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4971271/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27516789 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2016.61050 |
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author | Misiak, Piotr Jabłoński, Sławomir Dziwińska, Katarzyna Terlecki, Artur |
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description | We would like to present a case report of a very unusual suicide attempt. A 48-year-old female patient tried to commit suicide by stabbing herself with a kitchen knife into her neck. Suicide by self-stabbing is uncommon, constituting only 1-3% of suicide attempts. Patients with self-inflicted stab wounds may have a higher incidence of surgical interventions based on the stab location. Surprisingly, the mortality associated with this kind of wound is low. Most medical centers have very limited experience with this infrequent injury. There are only a few case reports and small series published in the literature of the subject. |
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spelling | pubmed-49712712016-08-11 A very unusual case of attempted suicide Misiak, Piotr Jabłoński, Sławomir Dziwińska, Katarzyna Terlecki, Artur Kardiochir Torakochirurgia Pol Case Report We would like to present a case report of a very unusual suicide attempt. A 48-year-old female patient tried to commit suicide by stabbing herself with a kitchen knife into her neck. Suicide by self-stabbing is uncommon, constituting only 1-3% of suicide attempts. Patients with self-inflicted stab wounds may have a higher incidence of surgical interventions based on the stab location. Surprisingly, the mortality associated with this kind of wound is low. Most medical centers have very limited experience with this infrequent injury. There are only a few case reports and small series published in the literature of the subject. Termedia Publishing House 2016-06-30 2016-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4971271/ /pubmed/27516789 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2016.61050 Text en Copyright © 2016 Polish Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons (Polskie Towarzystwo KardioTorakochirurgów) and the editors of the Polish Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Misiak, Piotr Jabłoński, Sławomir Dziwińska, Katarzyna Terlecki, Artur A very unusual case of attempted suicide |
title | A very unusual case of attempted suicide |
title_full | A very unusual case of attempted suicide |
title_fullStr | A very unusual case of attempted suicide |
title_full_unstemmed | A very unusual case of attempted suicide |
title_short | A very unusual case of attempted suicide |
title_sort | very unusual case of attempted suicide |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4971271/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27516789 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2016.61050 |
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