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Medical condition

Dermatothlasia
Specialty	Dermatology

Dermatothlasia is a cutaneous neurosis characterized by a person's uncontrollable desire to rub or pinch him/herself to form bruised areas on the skin, sometimes as a defense against pain elsewhere.

References

James, William D.; Berger, Timothy G.; et al. (2006). Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: clinical Dermatology. Saunders Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-7216-2921-6.

v t e Factitial dermatitis and psychiatric and organic nervous system disease / neurodermatitis
Mental and behavioural disorders	Body dysmorphic disorder Bromidrosiphobia Delusional parasitosis Dermatothlasia Factitious dermatitis Trichotillomania
Diseases of the nervous system	Complex regional pain syndrome Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis Meralgia paraesthetica Riley–Day syndrome Sciatic nerve injury Syringomyelia Trigeminal neuralgia
Diseases of the digestive system	Glossodynia
Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue	Malum perforans pedis Neurotic excoriations Factitial lymphedema
Ungrouped	Atypical chronic pain syndrome Brachioradial pruritus Notalgia paresthetica Postencephalitic trophic ulcer Psychogenic pruritus Scalp dysesthesia Scrotodynia/Vulvodynia Traumatic neuroma Trigeminal trophic lesion

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