język: Koro (disease)

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Koro is a culture-bound delusional disorder in which individuals have an overpowering belief that their sex organs are retracting and will disappear, despite the lack of any true longstanding changes to the genitals. Koro is also known as shrinking penis, and was listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The syndrome occurs worldwide, and mass hysteria of genital-shrinkage anxiety has a history in Africa, Asia and Europe. In the United States and Europe, the syndrome is commonly known as genital retraction syndrome. The condition can be diagnosed through psychological assessment, along with physical examination to rule out genuine disorders of the genitalia that c…

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Physical examination. Even in the specialty clinic of neurology, general physical examination is as important as neurologic examination, mainly because all health aspects are important for the patient and also because the neurologic symptoms are often related to systemic diseases in terms of clinical manifestation and pathogenesis. The general physical examination and neurologic examination can be carried out separately in this order, but it is often more practical to carry out the two kinds of examination together. Otherwise, a series of examinations from the top of the head to the toes will need to be repeated, which is not practical particularly when the time spent for each patient is li…