Genital and abdominal self-surgery. A case report.
In two separate procedures, a psychiatric patient first performed a bilateral orchiectomy on himself and then later attempted to denervate his adrenal glands. This case suggests that physicians should be alerted to the possibility of self-surgery occurring in patients who have sought elective surgery and have been rejected.
D000311:Adrenal Glands / Q000294:innervation*; D000328:Adult; D002369:Castration; D003714:Denervation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000150:complications*; D012652:Self Mutilation