Globus hystericus, a form of conversion disorder, is characterized by an uncomfortable sensation of a mass in the esophagus or airway. Evaluation proves no mass exists. Anxiety or psychological conflict is judged to be significantly related to the onset and progression of the sensation. The sensation may lead to difficulty swallowing or breathing and may become severe or life threatening. The d...

Conversion disorder is characterized as psychological symptoms such as somatization and emotional distress, but there is no abnormal electrical signal in the brain. We report a patient who appeared conversion disorder during the induction period of general anesthesia. A 45-year-old woman was planned for arthroscopic knee meniscectomy. In the operating room, she appeared stable, but she said ext...

Conversion deafness is a somatoform disorder characterized by hearing loss without an anatomic or pathophysiologic lesion. Clinically, discrepancies between behavior hearing thresholds and objective electrophysiologic examinations, such as impedance audiometry, otoacoustic emissions (OAE), and auditory brainstem response (ABR), will raise the suspicion of this disorder. It is judged to be due t...

Casks of haemoptysis clue to malarial infection must be exceedingly rare, yet the case about to be recorded appears to be one. During the past 61 years I have had occasion to treat 1,056 cases of acute malaria and 6,388 of chronic malaria, yet I have not previously seen haemoptysis, apparently due to malarial infection. In Osier and McCrae's System of Medicine,* where a comprehensive list of tw...

Received: 20 September 2016 Revised: 31 October 2016 Accepted: 9 November 2016 © Tsinghua University Press and Springer‐Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016