Camptocormia
- 1 November 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 157 (5) , 765-767
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.157.5.765
Abstract
Camptocormia is a rare conversion syndrome found mainly in soldiers from World War I and II. No case has been reported since, but this paper reports the syndrome in a former soldier of the Nicaraguan army. It is characterised by severe frontal flexion of the spinal cord and knees, with passive dropping of both arms, and sometimes behavioural abnormalities.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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