Is Pica an eating disorder or an obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorder?

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2010-2011

  Hergüner, Sabri ^a   Özyildirim, Ilker ^b   Tanidir, Cansaran ^c  

^a Child Psychiatry Clinic   (Turkey)

^b Psychiatry Clinic   (Turkey)

^c Okmeydani State Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE;

CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG RESPONSE; EATING DISORDER; FAMILY HISTORY; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LETTER; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PICA; SCHOOL CHILD;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; CHILD; EATING DISORDERS; FLUOXETINE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PICA;

EID: 56449094840     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2008.09.011     Document Type: Letter

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