Journal of Psychosomatic Research
Volume 68, Issue 1 , Pages 97-99 , January 2010

The concept of comorbidity in somatoform disorder—a DSM-V alternative for the DSM-IV classification of Somatoform disorder

Received 5 July 2009 ,Revised 17 September 2009 ,Accepted 17 September 2009.

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☆ The writing of this article was not supported by a research grant.

PII: S0022-3999(09)00374-2

doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2009.09.011

Journal of Psychosomatic Research
Volume 68, Issue 1 , Pages 97-99 , January 2010

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