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Anti-androgenic agent cyproterone acetate cured a woman of severe sexual obsessions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

T. Eriksson
T. Eriksson*
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Institute of Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, Göteborg University, PO Box 431, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 173 , Issue 4 , October 1998 , pp. 351
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Copyright © 1998 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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