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Delusional parasitosis in leprosy.

open access: yesLeprosy review, 1996
M S, Bhatia, S, Shome, R K, Gautam
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Delusional Parasitosis: A Clinical Profile

International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 2000
Objective: Delusional parasitosis is a form of monohypochondriacal psychosis, a condition sometimes encountered in psychiatric or primary care practice. The outcome of this condition is not well known. Method: In the present study, a ...
M S Bhatia
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Delusional parasitosis in neurological patients

General Hospital Psychiatry, 2010
Delusional parasitosis has been described in a wide range of patients with general medical conditions, but there are few reports about its frequency and possible pathogenic mechanisms in neurological patients. This paper describes this delusional syndrome in a sample of neurological patients.We reviewed all clinical charts of hospitalized patients at ...
Jesus Ramirez-Bermudez   +1 more
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Diagnosis and management of delusional parasitosis

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 2019
Delusional parasitosis is a monosymptomatic hypochondriacal state that causes great suffering for the patient and great suffering for those around them. Dermatologists are experts in the diagnosis of cutaneous disease and frequently encounter such patients.
Elliott H, Campbell   +3 more
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Delusional Parasitosis

Psychopathology, 2010
Delusional parasitosis (DP) was found in about 7 of 10,000 psychiatric admissions. The comparison of patients suffering from DP (n = 20) with 170 cases of late-onset schizophrenia (LOS) and 120 patients diagnosed as organic mental disorder due to cerebral arteriosclerosis (CAS) showed more similarities of DP with organic than with schizophrenic ...
A. Marneros, A. Deister, A. Rohde
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Delusional Parasitosis Associated with Phenelzine

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1991
A woman developed delusional parasitosis when taking phenelzine. The delusion occurred in an agitated hypomanic state and was preceded by an intense pruritus. It completely remitted following withdrawal of phenelzine combined with a low dose of haloperidol (1 mg/day) for several days.
D, Aizenberg, B, Schwartz, Z, Zemishlany
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Topiramate-induced delusional parasitosis

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 2008
A 48-year-old woman with temporal lobe epilepsy and no prior history of psychiatric illness was started on topiramate (TPM). The dose was titrated up to 150 mg twice daily over 14 weeks and led to a significant reduction in seizure frequency. Upon reaching this dose, she developed intense pruritus and the firm belief that her skin was infected by ...
Fleury, V., Wayte, J., Kiley, M.
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Delusional parasitosis in dermatological practice

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, 2007
AbstractBackground  The accurate incidence of delusional parasitosis (DP) is difficult to assess. The aim of this study was to analyse the frequency of DP treated by dermatologists, and to evaluate the treatment modalities they applied.Material and methods  A specially designed questionnaire was distributed to 172 dermatologists. A total of 118 doctors
J C, Szepietowski   +5 more
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The Misdiagnosis of “Delusional Parasitosis”

2021
The body of knowledge on delusional parasites is incriminates “delusional patients” as having imaginary external and internal symptoms that feel like parasite movements, dismisses them as psychiatric cases, and confuses cause with effect. We are critical of these arguments and believe that the symptoms of crawling and pin-pricking are genuine; just ...
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