HistoryThis section has been translated automatically.
Brown Falco, 1968
DefinitionThis section has been translated automatically.
Compulsive cutting of hair in circumscribed areas in psychoneurotically disturbed patients. This feigning of alopecia is usually interpreted as a disorder in which the affected persons want to take on a patient role.
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Occurrence/EpidemiologyThis section has been translated automatically.
Accompanying illness with artifacts and psychoses.
Clinical featuresThis section has been translated automatically.
Often symmetrical pseudoalopecia with hair stubble of normal density that appears to be shaved.
TherapyThis section has been translated automatically.
Psychiatric or psychological counselling and treatment, if necessary.
LiteratureThis section has been translated automatically.
- Brown Falco O, bird PG (1968) Trichotemnomania. A special skin manifestation of a cerebral-organic psycho-syndrome. dermatologist 19: 551-553
- Meiers HG (1971) Trichotemnomania. dermatologist 22: 335-337
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