Chronic koro-like symptoms - Two case reports

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Kar, Nilamadhab ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; EPIDEMIC; FEAR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; INDIA; INSOMNIA; KORO; MALE; MASTURBATION; MORBIDITY; PANIC; PENIS; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RELIGION; SCROTUM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; INDIA; KORO; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27644436408     PISSN: 1471244X     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-5-34     Document Type: Article

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