| Autor: |
Ntouros, Evangelos, Ntoumanis, Athanasios, Bozikas, Vasilios Panteleimon, Donias, Stamatis, Giouzepas, Ioannis, Garyfalos, Georgios |
| Zdroj: |
BMJ Case Reports; 3/15/2010, p6-6, 1p |
| Abstrakt: |
Koro syndrome is a psychiatric disorder characterised, in its typical form, by acute and intense anxiety, with complaints in men of a shrinking penis or fear of its retraction into the abdomen and resultant death. Initially, this syndrome was described as a culture specific disorder. Sporadic cases referred to as the koro-like syndrome have been observed in western countries recently. They are more likely to appear in the context of a psychiatric or neurological disorder. The clinical course of culture bound koro syndrome is usually self limited, but in some cases it can be transient or take on a chronic or recurrent form, lasting from days to weeks, months or even years. We present two cases, one of a middle aged man whose koro-like symptoms have persisted for over 18 years in a relapse mode that is rarely observed, and one of a young schizophrenic, who also exhibits koro-like symptoms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: |
Complementary Index |
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