This paper is only available as a PDF. To read, Please Download here.
Abstract
Factitial injuries constitute a group of lesions that relate only in the manner in
which they are produced and have no particular physical appearance. The possibility
of correctly diagnosing a factitial injury is difficult unless this unusual condition
is considered in a differential diagnosis. In this article, a case report of factitial
injury of the paraoral soft tissue in a 33-year-old white man is presented. A review
of self-mutilation and of the psychological aspects of self-destructive behavior is
also included.
To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
Purchase one-time access:
Academic & Personal: 24 hour online accessCorporate R&D Professionals: 24 hour online accessOne-time access price info
- For academic or personal research use, select 'Academic and Personal'
- For corporate R&D use, select 'Corporate R&D Professionals'
Subscribe:
Subscribe to Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral RadiologyAlready a print subscriber? Claim online access
Already an online subscriber? Sign in
Register: Create an account
Institutional Access: Sign in to ScienceDirect
References
- Factitial disease: an update.Psychosomatics. 1978; 19: 119-122
- Dermatitis artefacta.in: Proc R Soc Med. 70. 1977: 754-755
- Self-mutilation and the borderline personality.J Nerv Ment Dis. 1982; 170: 468-473
- Direct and indirect hostility and self-destructive behavior by hospitalized depressives.Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1983; 68: 345-350
- Relationships between measures of direct and indirect hostility and self-destructive behavior by hospitalized schizophrenics.Br J Psychiatry. 1983; 143: 173-176
- Prevalence of self-injurious behaviors in a large state facility for the retarded: a three-year follow-up study.J Autism Child Schizophr. 1978; 8: 261-269
- Contingent application of protective device to treat the severe self-biting behavior of a disturbed autistic child.J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry. 1984; 15: 79-83
- Continuous and intermittent application of overcorrection in a self-injurious autistic child: alternating treatments design analysis.J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry. 1981; 12: 355-358
- Clinical manifestations of congenital insensitivity of the hand and classification of syndromes.J Hand Surg [Am]. 1984; 9: 863-869
- Congenital indifference to pain.Ann Pediatr. 1971; 18: 314-320
- Congenital generalized indifference to pain (congenital analgia).Am J Dis Child. 1960; 100: 124-126
- Munchausen's syndrome: a new variety of bleeding type-self-inflicted cheilorrhagia and cheilitis glandularis.Dermatologica. 1985; 170: 93-97
- “Scopophilia Meanderans”—an unusual presentation of Munchausen's syndrome.J Laryngol Otol. 1979; 93: 67-74
- Munchausen's syndrome.Lancet. 1951; 1: 339-341
- Lesch-Nyhan syndrome: surgical treatment in a case with lip chewing.J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 1981; 9: 64-67
- The orofacial manifestations of the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.Int J Oral Surg. 1981; 10: 380-383
- Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 1982; 40: 750-752
- Depression and hostility in self-mutilation.Suicide Life Threat Behav. 1983; 13: 71-84
- Manipulation of self destruction in three retarded children.J Appl Behav Anal. 1969; 2: 143-147
- Deliberate disability.Br Med J. 1956; 1: 361-367
- Dermatitis artefacta.Int J Dermatol. 1985; 24: 236-238
- Psychiatric aspects of dermatitis artefacta.Br J Dermatol. 1980; 102: 29-34
- Dermatitis factitia.South Med J. 1973; 66: 1279-1285
- Self-inflicted gingival injuries.Dent Pract Dent Rec. 1972; 22: 418-426
- Minor self-inflicted injuries to the gingivae.J Clin Periodontol. 1976; 3: 128-132
- Self-inflicted periodontal injury.Br Dent J. 1979; 147: 244-246
- Oral manifestations of a psychological problem.J Periodontol. 1964; 35: 349-350
- Factitial gingival traumatism.J Periodontol. 1968; 39: 362-363
- Gingival traumatization—a habit.J Periodontol. 1962; 33: 353
Article info
Identification
Copyright
© 1987 Published by Elsevier Inc.
