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KMID : 0607519960040020254
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Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
1996 Volume.4 No. 2 p.254 ~ p.261
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Concept,Evaluation and Differential Diagnosis of Somatoform Disorder
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Kim Young-Chul
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Somatoform disorders are a group of syndromes in which patients focus on and complain of physical symptoms when there is no demonstrable underlying organic pathology or when complaints are in excess of what is expected. The author reviewed concept, sociocultural etiology, differential diagnosis and methods of evaluation of somatoform disorder. The symptoms of Korean culture-specific somatizing cluster, so called Wha-Byung, are discussed.
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