title: [Traumatic enucleation. Accident or self-mutilation?].
abstract: A 52-year-old woman was admitted for emergency treatment after traumatic enucleation. Because of the position of the avulsed eye and the acute mental condition of the patient a trauma caused by self-mutilation could not be excluded. There was even the suspicion of self-enucleation in a second case and in both cases a psychiatrist was consulted but ultimately a disastrous accident was clearly verified for both patients. Nevertheless, an interdisciplinary evaluation should be initiated in cases of patients with a suspicious traumatic injury as in cases of self-mutilation the danger of relapse is high in the first hours and weeks after the primary event.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Augenheilkunde, Klinikum Chemnitz gGmbH, Flemmingstr. 2, 09116 Chemnitz. strassburgerp@skc.de
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Straßburger
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Váradi
mesh_terms: D000059:Accidents; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D015353:Eye Enucleation / Q000523:psychology; D015807:Eye Injuries, Penetrating / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012652:Self Mutilation / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*