Self-Mutilation of the External Genitalia in Psychiatric Patients in Souro Sanou University Teaching Hospital: Two Cases Report and Literature Review
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Over a period of three years, two cases of self-amputation of the external genitalia were recorded and managed in our urology division in Souro Sanou University Teaching Hospital. These were male patients and aged 18 years and 32 years respectively. They were irregularly followed up for psychiatric disorders. One was suffering from schizophrenia, the other from paranoid schizophrenia. The first patient self-mutilated with complete sectioning of the penis with a kitchen knife, while the second patient self-mutilated with partial amputation of the penis with exposure of the corpus cavernosa and the left testicle. Managed as an emergency from the onset, the reimplantation of the penile stump could not be carried out due to the lack of an efficient technical expertise with the availability of microsurgery. Hemostasis and refashioning of the amputation stump were performed with definitive urethrostomy for one and penile reconstruction on urethral catheter and directed healing for the other. Postoperatively the two patients were able to urinate through the urethrostomy but the cosmetic appearance of the external genitalia was unsatisfactory. Although rare, self-mutilations are dramatic and serious accidents that can be life-threatening and functionally disabling for patients. Their management must be multidisciplinary, involving urological surgeons, intensive care physicians, emergency physicians and psychiatrists with the treatment of the underlying psychiatric disorder.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".