A 27 year old woman who presented with upper abdominal pain was found on ultrasonography to have multiple liver cysts consistent with hydatid disease. Three years previously she had undergone evacuation of multiple infected liver cysts thought to be due to hydatid disease. Computed tomographic scanning supported the diagnosis of hydatid disease affecting the right lobe of the liver. At laparoto...

self-mutilation is defined as intentional damaging of the body without intent to die.  this behavior is observed among groups of psychiatric patients particularly schizophrenics.  in these patients, self-mutilative behavior may have unusual manifestations related to delusion and hallucination.  in this article, an unusual form of self-mutilation of a paranoid schizophrenic patient is reported. ...