Comorbidity of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents with alopecia areata in a child and adolescent psychiatry clinical sample

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1118-1120

  Ghanizadeh, Ahmad ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALOPECIA AREATA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PREVALENCE; SCHEDULE FOR AFFECTIVE DISORDERS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADOLESCENT; ALOPECIA AREATA; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER;

EID: 55449101764     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: 13654632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2008.03743.x     Document Type: Article

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