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Camptocormia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Pau Pérez-Sales
Pau Pérez-Sales*
Affiliation:
Regional Department of Mental Health, Esteli, Region I, Las Segovias, Nicaragua
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∗Marques de Sentmenat 66, 08029 Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
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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.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 157 , Issue 5 , November 1990 , pp. 765 - 767
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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