Citation

Akgül İF, Karaş H, Sayğili İ, Usta H. Noro Psikiyatr Ars 2019; 56(2): 162-164.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Erenköy Mental Health Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Turk Noro-Psikiyatri Derneginin Yayin Organidir)

DOI

10.29399/npa.22987

PMID

31223252

PMCID

PMC6563864

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.

Language: en

Keywords

Tourette’s syndrome; adult; self-mutilation; vision loss