KORO IN AN INDUSTRIAL SETTING

This case of classical koro in a 52 year old male describes three essential characteristics, i.e., acute exacerbation of chronic anxiety, fear of genital retraction and fear that the complete disappearance of the organ into the abdomen will result in death. Various etiological, developmental and per...

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Autores principales: Agarwal, S.M., Divakara, P.G., Pramanik, K.B.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1994
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2972455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21743666
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author Agarwal, S.M.
Divakara, P.G.
Pramanik, K.B.
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Divakara, P.G.
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description This case of classical koro in a 52 year old male describes three essential characteristics, i.e., acute exacerbation of chronic anxiety, fear of genital retraction and fear that the complete disappearance of the organ into the abdomen will result in death. Various etiological, developmental and personality factors in the genesis of anxiety have been discussed. The patient was treated with anxiolytics, antidepressants and dual sex therapy and was followed up for five years.
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spelling pubmed-29724552011-07-08 KORO IN AN INDUSTRIAL SETTING Agarwal, S.M. Divakara, P.G. Pramanik, K.B. Indian J Psychiatry Case Report This case of classical koro in a 52 year old male describes three essential characteristics, i.e., acute exacerbation of chronic anxiety, fear of genital retraction and fear that the complete disappearance of the organ into the abdomen will result in death. Various etiological, developmental and personality factors in the genesis of anxiety have been discussed. The patient was treated with anxiolytics, antidepressants and dual sex therapy and was followed up for five years. Medknow Publications 1994 /pmc/articles/PMC2972455/ /pubmed/21743666 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Agarwal, S.M.
Divakara, P.G.
Pramanik, K.B.
KORO IN AN INDUSTRIAL SETTING
title KORO IN AN INDUSTRIAL SETTING
title_full KORO IN AN INDUSTRIAL SETTING
title_fullStr KORO IN AN INDUSTRIAL SETTING
title_full_unstemmed KORO IN AN INDUSTRIAL SETTING
title_short KORO IN AN INDUSTRIAL SETTING
title_sort koro in an industrial setting
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2972455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21743666
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