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Auto-amputation of the tongue associated with flupenthixol induced extrapyramidal symptoms
1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Baragwanath Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, Medical School, Johannesburg, South Africa.
International Clinical Psychopharmacology
|April 29, 1999
Abstract:
We report a case of tongue auto-amputation in a mentally retarded patient after a flupenthixol injection. Four days after flupenthixol administration, the patient developed orolingual dyskinetic movements involving mainly tongue biting and protrusion. Self-mutilation in this case may be secondary to flupenthixol induced acute atypical orolingual dyskinesia in the face of mental retardation.