Use of escitalopram in psychogenic excoriation

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 435-436

  Pukadan, David ^a   Antony, James ^b   Mohandas, Edakkunni ^c   Cyriac, Mathew ^d   Smith, Glen ^e   Elias, Alby ^e  

^a Department of Dermatology ^*  (India)

^b Jubilee Mission Hospital   (India)

^c Elite Mission Hospital   (India)

^d Division of Mental Health   (United Kingdom)

^e New South Wales Government   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCITALOPRAM; IMIPRAMINE;

ADULT; BITE; CASE REPORT; COMPULSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; LIP DISEASE; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PRURITUS; PSYCHOGENIC EXCORIATION; SCRATCHING; SKIN ABRASION; SKIN INFECTION;

ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; CITALOPRAM; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; LIP; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRURITUS; RECURRENCE; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 45849151720     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00048670801961198     Document Type: Letter

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