Biomedical Potential for Symptom Choice in Koro

Arabinda N. Chowdhury
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Arabinda N. Chowdhury: Department of Neurology & Psychiatric Medicine, Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, and Superintendent, Mental Observation Ward, Calcutta

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1989, vol. 35, issue 4, 329-332

Abstract: The distribution of different biomedical sexual factors in relation to Koro in 162 cases in a North Bengal Koro epidemic, has been analysed. Anatomo-sexual factors such as venereal disease and scrotal filaria were found to be significantly commoner in Koro patients. The commonest cited precipitating factor was extramarital intercourse (23.5%).

Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1177/002076408903500405

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