Postherpetic Neuralgia Presenting as Delusional Parasitosis: A Case Series
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Postherpetic Neuralgia Presenting as Delusional Parasitosis: A Case Series
Delusional parasitosis (DP) or Ekbom's disease is a rare psychiatric condition where the sufferers have a firm-fixed belief of insects crawling over their skin. The condition may be primary monosymptomatic hypochrondrical delusion or secondary to an underlying psychiatric or organic condition. We present two cases of elderly men presenting with classical symptomatology of DP, which is found to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0253-7176,0975-1564
DOI: 10.4103/0253-7176.207347