TY - JOUR T1 - Koro-like symptoms in two Greek men JF - BMJ Case Reports DO - 10.1136/bcr.08.2008.0679 VL - 2010 SP - bcr0820080679 AU - Evangelos Ntouros AU - Athanasios Ntoumanis AU - Vasilios Panteleimon Bozikas AU - Stamatis Donias AU - Ioannis Giouzepas AU - Georgios Garyfalos Y1 - 2010/01/01 UR - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2010/bcr.08.2008.0679.abstract N2 - Koro syndrome is a psychiatric disorder characterised, in its typical form, by acute and intense anxiety, with complaints in men of a shrinking penis or fear of its retraction into the abdomen and resultant death. Initially, this syndrome was described as a culture specific disorder. Sporadic cases referred to as the koro-like syndrome have been observed in western countries recently. They are more likely to appear in the context of a psychiatric or neurological disorder. The clinical course of culture bound koro syndrome is usually self limited, but in some cases it can be transient or take on a chronic or recurrent form, lasting from days to weeks, months or even years. We present two cases, one of a middle aged man whose koro-like symptoms have persisted for over 18 years in a relapse mode that is rarely observed, and one of a young schizophrenic, who also exhibits koro-like symptoms. ER -