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In two separate procedures, a psychiatric patient first performed a
bilateral orchiectomy on himself and then later attempted to denervate his
adrenal glands. This case suggests that physicians should be alerted to the
possibility of self-surgery occurring in patients who have sought elective
surgery and have been rejected.
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