Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 46, Issue 1 , Pages 20-26 , January 2005

Comorbid personality disorders in subjects with panic disorder: do personality disorders increase clinical severity?

  • Mustafa Ozkan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Dicle University, Diyarbakir 21280, Turkey
    • ,
  • Abdurrahman Altindag

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Harran University, Sanliurfa 63100, Turkey
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +90 414 312 8456x2319; fax: +90 414 313 9615.

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doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2004.07.015

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 46, Issue 1 , Pages 20-26 , January 2005

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