Psychocutaneous syndromes: A call for revised nomenclature

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 317-319

  Walling, H W ^a,b   Swick, B L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALOPECIA; ANXIETY; DELUSION; DEPRESSION; EXCORIATION; FORMICATION; HUMAN; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; NEUROMECHANICAL ALOPECIA; NEUROSIS; NOMENCLATURE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PSEUDOPARASITIC DYSESTHESIA; PSYCHOCUTANEOUS DISEASE; REVIEW; SCRATCHING; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

DELUSIONS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PARASITIC DISEASES; SELF MUTILATION; TERMINOLOGY; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

EID: 33947638951     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: 13652230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2006.02334.x     Document Type: Review

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