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[Delusions of intestinal parasitosis in a female patient with endogenous depression]
K Podoll1, F Bofinger, B von der Stein
1Psychiatrische Klinik der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf/Rheinische Landesklinik Düsseldorf.
Fortschritte Der Neurologie-Psychiatrie
|February 1, 1993
Abstract:
A 82-year old woman had, since the age of 50, a history of 9 phases of monopolar endogenous depression with abnormal intestinal sensations and hypochondriac delusions that appeared as delusional parasitosis in 5 of these phases. Differential diagnosis and therapeutic aspects are discussed.