Paper eating: An unusual obsessive-compulsive disorder dimension

There is a lot of diversity in the medical realm; where unspecified sign and symptoms might confuse and force even experienced clinicians to commit mistakes. Paper eating is presently included in pica, but certain rare compulsions may mimic this and cause confusion for unsuspecting observers. We rep...

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Autores principales: Bharti, Abhishek, Mishra, Ashwani Kumar, Sinha, Vishal, Anwar, Zeeshan, Kumar, Vipin, Mitra, Sayantanava
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4866349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27212826
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.181713
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author Bharti, Abhishek
Mishra, Ashwani Kumar
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description There is a lot of diversity in the medical realm; where unspecified sign and symptoms might confuse and force even experienced clinicians to commit mistakes. Paper eating is presently included in pica, but certain rare compulsions may mimic this and cause confusion for unsuspecting observers. We report a case of paper eating as a manifestation of compulsion in a 15-year-old girl, and reiterate that missing on rare presentations might cause the patient sufferings from inadvertent pharmacological treatment efforts.
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spelling pubmed-48663492016-05-20 Paper eating: An unusual obsessive-compulsive disorder dimension Bharti, Abhishek Mishra, Ashwani Kumar Sinha, Vishal Anwar, Zeeshan Kumar, Vipin Mitra, Sayantanava Ind Psychiatry J Case Report There is a lot of diversity in the medical realm; where unspecified sign and symptoms might confuse and force even experienced clinicians to commit mistakes. Paper eating is presently included in pica, but certain rare compulsions may mimic this and cause confusion for unsuspecting observers. We report a case of paper eating as a manifestation of compulsion in a 15-year-old girl, and reiterate that missing on rare presentations might cause the patient sufferings from inadvertent pharmacological treatment efforts. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4866349/ /pubmed/27212826 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.181713 Text en Copyright: © Industrial Psychiatry Journal 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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