Delusional parasitosis or Ekbom syndrome: A case series [5]

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 85-87

  Nicolato, Rodrigo ^a   Corrêa, Humberto ^a   Romano Silva, Marco A ^a   Teixeira Jr , Antonio L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CITALOPRAM; HALOPERIDOL; MOCLOBEMIDE; OLANZAPINE; PIMOZIDE; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; RIVASTIGMINE; VENLAFAXINE;

AGED; AKATHISIA; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTACT DERMATITIS; DELUSIONAL DISORDER; DELUSIONAL PARASITOSIS; DEMENTIA; DISEASE DURATION; EKBOM SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; LETTER; LICHENOID ERUPTION; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MITE; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; PARASITOSIS; PEDICULOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCRATCHING; SHARED PSYCHOTIC DISORDER; SKIN MANIFESTATION; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; DELUSIONS; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS;

EID: 29244441157     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2005.08.008     Document Type: Letter

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