Editorial: Morgellons: Disease or delusions?

Perspectives in Psychiatric Care

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 67-68

  Paquette, Mary ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DELUSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; FACTITIOUS DISEASE; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MENTAL DISEASE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING; NURSING DIAGNOSIS; PARASITIC SKIN DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

ADULT; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DELUSIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FACTITIOUS DISORDERS; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; NURSING DIAGNOSIS; SKIN DISEASES, PARASITIC; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 33947307187     PISSN: 00315990     EISSN: 17446163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-6163.2007.00113.x     Document Type: Editorial

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