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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: elective mutism due to a dog bite trauma in a 4-year-old girl: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Selective mutism due to a dog bite trauma in a 4-year-old girl a case report Dimitrios Anyfantakis 1 Emmanouil Botzakis2 Evangelos Mplevrakis1 Emmanouil K Symvoulakis3 and Ioannis Arbiros1 Address Department of Pediatric Surgery University General Hospital of Heraklion Crete Greece 2Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University General Hospital of Heraklion Crete Greece and 3Department of Blood Donation University General Hospital of Heraklion Crete Greece Email Dimitrios Anyfantakis - danyfantakis@ Emmanouil Botzakis - ebotzakis@ Evangelos Mplevrakis - v_blevrakis@ Emmanouil K Symvoulakis - symvouman@ loannis Arbiros - arbiros@ Corresponding author Published 3 November 2009 Received 27 October 2009 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3 100 doi 1752-1947-3-100 Accepted 3 November 2009 This article is available from http content 3 1 100 2009 Anyfantakis et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction A child experiencing an event of threatening or catastrophic nature may experience considerable post-traumatic psychological distress. Dog bites present an important public health problem and are a frequent cause of physical trauma in children. Physicians who manage paediatric trauma may not be vigilant of the high risk of psychological stress in children exposed to a physical injury. Case presentation A 4-year-old white girl of Greek origin with a dog-bite related trauma was admitted to the University Hospital of Crete Greece for surgical repair and intravenous antibiotic therapy due to extensive lesions. Exposure to the traumatic event triggered the onset