Depressive symptomatology correlates with phantom breast syndrome in mastectomized women

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 258, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 165-170

  Spyropoulou, Areti C ^a   Papageorgiou, Charalabos ^a   Markopoulos, Christos ^b   Christodoulou, George N ^a   Soldatos, Konstantin R ^a  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Depression; Mastectomy; Phantom breast syndrome; Psychopathology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; EYSENCK PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY; PHANTOM BREAST SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY IMAGE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHANTOM LIMB; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 43149102299     PISSN: 09401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00406-007-0770-y     Document Type: Article

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