Trichotillomania - Complications
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The manipulation of arousal on the intensity of urges to pull hair in a 16 year old female with trichotillomania: a single case study.

30 Dec 2008 Hairpulling (trichotillomania) is often linked to stressful circumstances and may produce feelings of guilt, shame and humiliation. In a behavioural model, affective experience was identified as an important maintaining factor, as both a cue and ... Read more...

Rapunzel and pregnancy.

30 Dec 2008 Rapunzel, the girl with long golden tresses in the fairy tale, inspired Vaughan et al to describe, in 1968, cases of trichobezoar with a long tail causing bowel obstruction as "Rapunzel syndrome." A 22-year-old Egyptian woman had been suffering from ... Read more...

[Dysphagia of unknown cause in a young female]

29 Nov 2008 Many different causes have been described for dysphagia. An uncommon one is trichobezoars, which are mainly caused by trichotillomania. This may lead to mechanical obstruction and peritonitis due to perforation of the gut. Here we report a case of a ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Trichotillomania - Complications'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Punding in patients on dopamine agonists for restless leg syndrome. 13 Jan 2009
• The manipulation of arousal on the intensity of urges to pull hair in a 16 year old female with trichotillomania: a single case study. 30 Dec 2008
• Rapunzel and pregnancy. 30 Dec 2008
• Multiple rare SAPAP3 missense variants in trichotillomania and OCD. 30 Dec 2008
• [Dysphagia of unknown cause in a young female] 29 Nov 2008
• The child and adolescent trichotillomania impact project: descriptive psychopathology, comorbidity, functional impairment, and treatment utilization. 29 Nov 2008
• [Intestinal obstruction due to a trichobezoar or Rapunzel syndrome: report of one case] 5 Oct 2008
• [Trichotillomania and comorbidity--lamotrigine in a new perspective] 29 Sep 2008
• Alopecia in children. 29 Jun 2008
• Trichobezoar and postpartum gastric perforation: a case report and brief review of literature. 29 Apr 2008
• [Peritonitis caused by a giant trichobezoar ventriculi--a case report] 30 Mar 2008
• The trichotillomania scale for children: development and validation. 6 Jan 2008
• What's missing from this picture? An approach to alopecia in children. 29 Nov 2007
• Images in clinical medicine. Trichobezoar. 20 Nov 2007
• Laparoscopic removal of a huge gastric trichobezoar in a patient with trichotillomania. 30 May 2007
• Mucocutaneous findings in 100 children with Down syndrome. 29 Apr 2007
• Gastric trichobezoar presenting as gastric outlet obstruction--a case report. 27 Feb 2007
• The Trichotillomania Impact Project (TIP): exploring phenomenology, functional impairment, and treatment utilization. 29 Nov 2006
• Trichotillomania and trichobezoar: a clinical practice insight with report of illustrative case. 30 Oct 2006
• Epigastric mass in a young girl: trichobezoar. Imaging diagnosis. 30 Aug 2006

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Technical information about 'Trichotillomania'

Definition: Compulsion to pull out one's hair.

Descriptor UI: D014256

Alternative terms: Trichotillomania; Trichotillomanias;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.500.800;

Online Note: use OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER to search TRICHOTILLOMANIA 1966-74

History Note: 91(75); was see under OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER 1981-90; was see under NEUROSES, OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE 1963-80; was in Cat F only 1975-79