Psychogenic fever or psychogenic hyperthermia?

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1287-1288

  Miric, Dragoslav ^a   Venet, Richard ^a   Aproh, Etienne ^a   Nguyen Duc, Hat ^a  

^a Hopital Rene Muret Bigottini   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CASE REPORT; CONVERSION DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; PARKINSON DISEASE; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; TREMOR;

AGED; CONVERSION DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HUMANS; PARKINSON DISEASE; TREMOR;

EID: 0031252313     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1997.tb03796.x     Document Type: Letter

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