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Laurent Misery, Myriam Chastaing, Sylviane Touboul, Valérie Callot, Martine Schollhammer, Paul Young, Nathalie Feton-Danou, Sabine Dutray
Psychogenic excoriations are also called neurotic excoriations, dermatillomania or skin picking syndrome. We proposed diagnostic criteria and then performed a study of the psychiatric profiles of outpatients with psychogenic excoriations and the circumstances around the creation of these excoriations. Although the results must be interpreted with caution because the study was performed with only 10 patients, interesting data is provided about the onset of psychogenic excoriations, the behaviour of picking, and comorbidity...
July 2012: Acta Dermato-venereologica
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