Clinical features of outpatients with somatization symptoms treated at a Japanese psychosomatic medicine clinic

Abstract Background Somatization is produced due to the summation of psychological factors, irrespective of the presence or absence of physical factors. A group of diseases with severe pain and other disorders exhibit so-called Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS), and the characteristics of patient...

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Main Authors: Yuzo Nakamura, Takeaki Takeuchi, Kazuaki Hashimoto, Masahiro Hashizume
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-06-01
Series:BioPsychoSocial Medicine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13030-017-0104-x