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Volume 2000, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0253-8253
  • EISSN: 2227-0426

Abstract

Report of a rare occurrence of koro-like symptoms as a part of transient post-ictal schizophrenia-like psychosis in a Jordanian patient The etiology is reviewed in relation to the literature.

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