Re: Diogenes Syndrome in a Pair of Siblings
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Re: Diogenes syndrome in a pair of siblings.
Dear Editor: We refer to the interesting letter from Dr Esposito and colleagues in France, describing 2 siblings who lived in severe domestic squalor (1). One was an unmarried woman, aged 61 years; the other was her brother, aged 58 years and suffering from a physical handicap. The authors state that Diogenes syndrome is rare in a pair of siblings and that the few reported cases of a pair livin...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0706-7437,1497-0015
DOI: 10.1177/070674370505000914