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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |