Ekbom syndrome (delusory parasitosis): Ponderations on two cases

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 395-396

  Amato Neto, Vicente ^a   Amato, Juliane Gomes De Paula ^b   Amato, Valdir Sabbaga ^b   Ferreira, Cláudio Santos ^b  

^a Parasitologia   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; IVERMECTIN; TIABENDAZOLE;

ANGIOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DELUSION; EKBOM SYNDROME; HEMATOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; PARASITISM; PARASITOSIS; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SKIN DEFECT; SLEEP DISORDER; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 37848999750     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: 16789946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652007000600012     Document Type: Letter

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