Loss of Sight Caused by Ocular Self-Mutilative Behaviour: A Case of Malignant Tourette Syndrome
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İbrahim Fuat Akgül1, Hakan Karaş2, İshak Sayğili2
1Department of Psychiatry, Erenköy Mental Health Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey.
Abstract:
Tourette's Syndrome is developmental neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by stereotypic, non-rhythmic multiple motor and/or vocal tics. In rare cases, severe tics which can be life-threatening or self-mutilating may be observed in Tourette Syndrome. These types of cases that involve severe self-injurious behavior are called malignant Tourette's Syndrome. In this report, we present an adult case of Tourette Syndrome with vision loss as a result of recurrent and severe ocular self-mutilative tics.
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