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Koro in an Israeli Male

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Ilan Modai ,
Hanan Munitz  and
Dov Aizenberg
Ilan Modai*
Affiliation:
Geha Psychiatric Hospital and Lecturer, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
Hanan Munitz
Affiliation:
A, Geha Psychiatric Hospital and Senior Lecturer, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
Dov Aizenberg
Affiliation:
Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tiqva, 49 100, Israel
*
Correspondence
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The Koro syndrome, a “special cultural psychiatric syndrome’, is encountered in South China, Malaysia and Indonesia, especially among people of Chinese origin. There are only eight case reports of Koro from the Western hemisphere. We present a typical primary Koro patient from Israel. Jewish cultural mores are a possible contributory factor.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 149 , Issue 4 , October 1986 , pp. 503 - 506
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Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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