Citation

Brown R, al-Bachari MA, Kambhampati KK. Br. J. Ophthalmol. 1991; 75(8): 496-498.

Affiliation

Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral, Merseyside.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1873272

PMCID

PMC1042441

Abstract

Five cases of self-inflicted eye injury are described and discussed. A review of the literature shows that several psychiatric diagnoses have been assigned to people who damage their eyes. A variety of mechanisms to explain this phenomenon are described.

Language: en