In this study, we present 23 cases of dismembered bodies examined by the Cracow Department of Forensic Medicine in 1968-2005 period. Presented material includes 17 instances of defensive mutilation, three instances of offensive mutilation and two cases when dismemberment (decapitation) was a direct cause of death. One case is hard to classified, the perpetrator dissected free skin from the all ...

Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (LNS) is an X-linked recessive disorder resulting from a deficiency of the metabolic enzyme hypozanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT). This syndrome presents with abnormal metabolic and neurological manifestations including hyperuricemia, mental retardation*, spastic cerebral palsy (CP), dystonia, and self-mutilation. The mechanism behind the severe self-mutilat...

Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C), as a topic, has evolved over the last eighty years, from being almost unheard of outside practicing countries [1], to a subject about which, there is now greater awareness. However, many misconceptions prevail. We support the idea that everyone needs to know basic facts about FGM/C, that all health care providers should be involved in avoiding new c...

People who self-mutilate have been hypothesized to have deficient skills in coping and problem-solving that leave them vulnerable to the adoption of self-mutilation as a coping strategy. This hypothesis was tested using male incarcerated self-mutilators with comparisons being made with non-multilating, prisoner, and non-prisoner control groups. Examination of the inherent resources which enable...

2In order to normalise the ESR and stabilise the arterial lesions, these patients were given daily doses of steroids higher than the standard for GCA (¢ 1 mg/kg). Most of them showed significant improvements in claudication and pulses (60%). Although the pulses were not recovered in cases with total vascular thrombosis, amputation of the involved limb was avoided.4 The mean response time was 2-...

History. Is a cultivator in comfortable circumstances Has been married tor the last twelve years, and has had two children, one of whom died in infancy and the other is a girl aged about ten and healthy : wife is alive. According to his relatives and the Police report, has never been suspected of being insane. About two months ago became the chela of a yogi who at his own request made him a lli...