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Trichotillomania-Associated Personality Characteristics
Background: Patients with Trichotillomania (TC) have an irreversible urge to pull their hair. This self-mutilation behavior is associated with high level of tension before and a sense of gratification and relief after TC. Objective: To investigate the personality characteristics of patients suffering from TC. Method: The study was performed on 43 TC patients and 43 gender and age-matched non-p...
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Bezoars are collections or concretions of indigestible foreign material in the gastrointestinal tract. Trichotillomania is an impetuous disorder of pulling out one’s own hair, whereas trichobezoar is the formation of a hairball after trichophagia [1], which contains a large quantity of hair, varying in length, matted together. A 13-year-old patient presented with abdominal pain beginning 1 mont...
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Trichotillomania is a functionally impairing, often overlooked disorder with no Food and Drug Administration-approved medications indicated for its treatment. The ability of clinical trials to detect the beneficial effects of pharmacologic treatment in trichotillomania has been hampered by the high placebo response rate. Very little is known about baseline demographic and clinical characteristi...
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Trichotillomania is an underreported and underdiagnosed condition associated with significant impairments in social and functional relationships. The connection between celiac disease and trichotillomania is not yet established clearly. Only a few cases of trichotillomania have been reported to date. Here, we report the case of a 22-year-old Saudi female, who presented with celiac disease and t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1933
ISSN: 0035-9157
DOI: 10.1177/003591573302600717