Citation

Gray TL, Karagiannis A, Crompton JL, Selva D. J. Neuroophthalmol. 2003; 23(2): 154-156.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/00041327-200306000-00011

PMID

12782931

Abstract

A 30-year-old paranoid schizophrenic man suffered a psychotic episode while flying on an airplane, locked himself in the bathroom, detached the temples of his sunglasses, and stabbed them deeply into both medial orbits. He then secured one temple into the door hinge and rammed the back of his neck repeatedly against it. The injuries caused no light perception from optic nerve trauma and a Brown-Séquard hemitransection of the spinal cord.

Language: en

Keywords

Adult; Blindness; Brown-Sequard Syndrome; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Optic Nerve Injuries; Schizophrenia, Paranoid; Spinal Cord Injuries; Suicide, Attempted; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Wounds, Stab