THE KORO (GENITAL RETRACTION) SYNDROME AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH INFERTILITY - A CASE-REPORT

The koro syndrome is a psychiatric disorder characterized by acute anx iety and a deep-seated fear of shrinkage of the penis and its ultimate retraction into the abdomen, which will cause death. Concurrence of t he koro (genital retraction) syndrome with a pathological condition of the urogenital system has rarely been described. We report a case of koro associated with infertility. Within 3 weeks of treatment with hal operidol the classic symptoms of koro disappeared. To our knowledge th is case represents the sixth report of the koro syndrome associated wi th urogenital pathology and the first report of its association with i nfertility.