Literature DB >> 15027561

Enucleation in psychosis associated with aqueductal stenosis.

Iginia Mancinelli1, Maurizio Pompili, Francesco Scapati, Simone Lazanio, Giorgio D Kotzalidis, Roberto Tatarelli.   

Abstract

Reports of self-enucleation are frequent in medical literature, but cases of enucleation towards another are rare. We report the case of a man, 20 years of age, who suffered from psychosis with hydrocephalus and aqueductal stenosis that required a forensic psychiatric investigation to ascertain whether he was of unsound mind when he assaulted and enucleated the right eye of an officer and led to the surgical enucleation of the victim's left eye. Based on his clinical interviews and hospitalization record, we conclude that at the time of the assault, he was suffering from a delusional disorder with religious and demonic content, visual and auditory hallucinations, illusion phenomena, delusional interpretations, imaginative elements, a feeling of terror, and command hallucinations that compelled him to perform the act of aggression.

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Year:  2004        PMID: 15027561

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Forensic Sci        ISSN: 0022-1198            Impact factor:   1.832


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1.  Attempted auto-enucleation in two incarcerated young men with psychosis.

Authors:  David Reichstein; Neda Esmaili; Timothy Wells; Judy E Kim
Journal:  Saudi J Ophthalmol       Date:  2014-09-27
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