Table 2.

A sampling of diagnoses other than hysterical conversion reaction (HCR) assigned to HCR case patients

Admission diagnoses later revised to HCR*	No. Patients (N=78)	Revised discharge diagnoses of patients admitted with HCR diagnosis*	No. Patients (N=98)
Symptomatic/Syndromic, not otherwise specified		Medical diagnosis or symptom:
Respiratory distress or dyspnea	15	Pelvic inflammatory disease	11
Headache	10	Costochondritis	6
Convulsion	9	Urinary tract infection	5
Chest pain	8	Respiratory tract infection	4
Vomiting/diarrhea/abdominal pain	7	Peptic ulcer disease	4
Unconsciousness	4	Sinusitis	3
Fever	3	Enteric fever	3
Restlessness	2	Convulsion	3
Vertigo	2	Bronchial asthma	2
Respiratory distress or dyspnea	15	Migraine	2
Others including palpitation, swelling, weakness, bodyache	1 each	Assorted others (e.g. paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, unstable angina, stroke, pleural effusion, combined deficiency anemia, chronic tonsillitis, electrolyte imbalance, dysmenorrhea, right ovarian cyst, acute calculus, post-menopausal osteoporosis, and fibroadenoma of the breast)	1 each
Psychiatric:
Generalized anxiety disorder	3
Anxiety neurosis	2
Medical:
Asthma	1
Ischemic heart disease	1
		Psychiatric
		Anxiety neurosis	18
		Generalized anxiety disorder	9
		Acute stress reaction	4
		Panic attack/disorder	3
		Schizophrenia	1

*in some cases multiple non-HCR diagnoses were assigned to the same patient.