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Original Article

Symptom perception: psychological correlates of symptom reporting and illness behavior of women with medically unexplained gynecological symptoms

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Pages 171-181 | Received 10 Dec 1993, Accepted 22 Apr 1994, Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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