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Koro: the Genital Retraction Symptom after Stroke

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

D. N. Anderson
D. N. Anderson*
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Department of Psychiatry, Fazakerley Hospital, Longmoor Lane, Liverpool L9 4AL
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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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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 157 , Issue 1 , July 1990 , pp. 142 - 144
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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