Koro: the Genital Retraction Symptom After Stroke

Overview

Journal Br J Psychiatry

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 1990 Jul 1

PMID 2397349

Citations 5

Authors

D N Anderson

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Abstract

The complete Koro complex in an elderly male Briton was associated with psychotic depression following a non-dominant temporoparietal stroke. As Koro lacks both cultural and diagnostic specificity, it would be more appropriately renamed the genital retraction symptom.

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