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Covert self-mutilation of oral tissues and skin by mechanical and chemical means
1Westmead Hospital Dental Clinical School, New South Wales, Australia.
Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, and Oral Pathology
|June 1, 1988
Abstract:
A case is presented in which a patient performed persistent covert acts of self-mutilation through mechanical and chemical means. The lesions first involved the oral mucosa and then the skin and were misinterpreted as erythema multiforme and pyoderma gangrenosum, respectively.