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Assessing the Impact of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting on Genital Inflammation and Microbiota Among Kenyan Female Sex Workers. [PDF]

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Self-Mutilation in Adolescents

Journal of School Nursing, 2006
Self-mutilation is not a new trend or phenomenon in adolescents. Self-mutilation can be divided into three categories: major, stereotypic, and moderate/superficial. Moderate/superficial self-mutilation is the most common type in adolescents and includes cutting, burning, and carving.
Catherine C Mcdonald
exaly   +3 more sources

Genital Self-Mutilation

Journal of Urology, 1993
We report a series of 14 patients with 19 self-inflicted genital injuries during a period of 10 years. Of the patients 65% were psychotic and 35% were not psychotic. Repeated attempts at genital self-mutilation occurred in 31% of the cases, mainly in the psychotic group. A history of alcohol and/or drug abuse was present in 55% of the cases.
Sherif Aboseif   +2 more
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Self mutilation

Journal of Adolescence, 1982
In this paper, the various theoretical avenues which have been explored in an attempt to understand the difficulties of self‐mutilating patients, have led to the conclusion that the primary problem is in the area of very early symbiotic object relationships, where skin assumes great significance, and where, in these patients, an unclear differentiation
A, Fairbairn, F, Hassanyeh
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Self-Mutilation

Scandinavian Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1984
Self-mutilation presents great diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties and the financial expenditure involved in its treatment is considerable. The ten patients comprising the present investigation were on average hospitalized for 314 days and were operated on 15 times. Only two can be considered to have recovered.
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Adolescents’ self-mutilation - Relationship with dependent behaviour

open access: yesSwiss Journal of Psychology, 2003
(from the journal abstract) The aim of this study, which was carried out in the French-speacking part of Switzerland, was to examine the relationship between suicide attempts and self-mutilation by adolescents and young adults. The population, aged 14-25
P Stephan, Olivier Halfon
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Genital self-mutilation

Annals of African Medicine, 2010
We present a case report of a 22-year-old Nigerian student who presented to the accident and emergency unit of a Nigerian Teaching Hospital with a history of self-inflicted genital injury following a suicide attempt. He had background history of predisposition to depressive illness, a current diagnosis of a major depressive disorder, and had had two ...
Ajape, A A.   +5 more
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COMPULSIVE SELF-MUTILATION

THE JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE, 1970
Self-mutilation as a compulsive act is rare; self-inflicted injury to the eyes, other than enucleation, is also rare. Only two instances of eye banging, similar to that of the patient whose history was presented, were found in the world literature. While the patient's disorder descriptively and psy-
J L, Stinnett, M H, Hollender
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Genital self‐mutilation

International Journal of Urology, 2006
Abstract  A 53‐year‐old man was brought to the emergency department having removed both testicles and amputated his penis using a bread knife. Examination of the amputated penis showed it to be unsuitable for an attempted replant procedure. The patient was taken to theatre where the perineal wound was debrided and the remaining urethra brought down as ...
Helen, Stunell   +3 more
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