<p>Dermatitis artefacta: self-inflicted genital injury</p>

Self-inflicted ulcerations.

Dear Editors, Self-inflicted ulceration, as part of dermatitis artefacta, is a rare condition often diagnosed by exclusion as clinical, histological and laboratory findings do not comply with any known disease (1). Patients with such skin lesions also suffer from psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia, dementia, personality disorders and so on (1). As far as treatment is concerned, best res...

Managing self-inflicted nondeterminism

When a computation is replicated for greater availability – either by simultaneous execution on multiple machines or by restarting it after a crash – the problem of keeping replicas consistent arises. Replicas lose consistency when their run-time states diverge. This can happen because of differences in hardware inputs (clock ticks, network packets, keystrokes, etc.), which in turn lead to diff...

Self-inflicted eye injuries.

Five cases of self-inflicted eye injury are described and discussed. A review of the literature shows that several psychiatric diagnoses have been assigned to people who damage their eyes. A variety of mechanisms to explain this phenomenon are described.

Treating Nato's Self-inflicted Wound

Arteriosclerosis: inevitable or self-inflicted?

Over the last 20 years, aortic stiffness has emerged as an important, independent predictor of cardiovascular outcome. Recent data suggest that it may add to existing risk prediction models and improve patient stratification. However, the precise biological pathways and processes underlying aortic stiffening remain unclear. A better understanding of these is an important prerequisite for the ra...