Psychocutaneous disease, defined in this review as primary psychiatric disease with skin
manifestations, is commonly encountered in dermatology. Dermatologists can play an …

Delusional infestation is a psychiatric condition defined by a fixed belief of infestation
despite contrary evidence. Diagnosis includes exclusion of organic etiologies. Treatment …

Background Delusional infestation (DI) is a well‐recognized clinical entity but there is a
paucity of reliable data concerning its epidemiology. Knowledge of the epidemiology is …

Patients with delusional infestations (DI), previously named delusions of parasitosis, have a
fixed, false belief that they are infested with living or non‐living pathogens. Patients have …

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Approximately half of all patients presenting to dermatologists exhibit signs and symptoms of
psychiatric conditions that are either primary or secondary to cutaneous disease. Because …

Delusional infestation is a relatively rare disorder characterised by the belief of being
infested with living or non-living organisms [1]. Classically, patients present with the belief …

Delusional infestation is the conviction that one is infested with pathogens—either animate
or inanimate—despite medical or microbiologic evidence to the contrary. Infestation with …

Objective Oral cenesthopathy is characterized by foreign body sensations without medical
and dental evidence for them. It is thought to be a rare disease in psychiatry, but many …

Ekbom's syndrome represents a relatively uncommon neuropsychiatric condition
characterized by the recurrent and bizarre fixed delusional belief to be infested by small …