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Annals of General Psychiatry An unusual case of trichotillomania and trichophagia in a young African American female adult

2022-07-29

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<h4>Background: </h4> Trichotillomania refers to repetitive pulling of hair from the body and may be accompanied by trichophagia, the ingesting of extracted hair. It is frequently comorbid with other psychiatric disorders and resulting hair loss can seriously affect quality of life. Trichophagia can lead to trichobezoars, indigestible aggregations of hair in the gastrointestinal tract that can cause pain and bowel...

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Literature Corpus work: 20e10470-c50e-5ac4-aa0a-b271082115b1
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1883587/v1

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