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Apotemnophilia, body integrity identity disorder or xenomelia? Psychiatric and neurologic etiologies face each other

This review summarizes the available studies of a rare condition in which individuals seek the amputation of a healthy limb or desire to be paraplegic. Since 1977, case reports and group studies have been produced, trying to understand the cause of this unusual desire. The main etiological hypothese...

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Autores principales: Sedda, Anna, Bottini, Gabriella
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4094630/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25045269
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S53385