Forty meals for a drop of blood ...

Increasing migration flow to Western countries poses formidable challenges from the epidemiological, clinical, and cultural standpoints. A case of Dhat syndrome is presented in a young Pakistani male migrant living in Italy, which required integrated medical and cultural approach to be solved after a through diagnostic workout that did not yield any result.

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