CHILDHOOD LEUKODYSTROPHY PRESENTING AS SECONDARY BIPOLAR DISORDER

Leukodystrophies are rare dysmyelinating disorders of the nervous system, which occasionally have an initial psychiatric presentation. This report describes a case of a 9-year-old boy whose initial presentation resembled a bipolar disorder but subsequent work-up revealed an underlying leukodystrophy...

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Autores principales: Duggal, Harpreet S., Sinha, Vinod K., Nizamie, S.Haque
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2001
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2955938/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21407844
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author Duggal, Harpreet S.
Sinha, Vinod K.
Nizamie, S.Haque
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description Leukodystrophies are rare dysmyelinating disorders of the nervous system, which occasionally have an initial psychiatric presentation. This report describes a case of a 9-year-old boy whose initial presentation resembled a bipolar disorder but subsequent work-up revealed an underlying leukodystrophy, most likely Alexander's disease. The course of this rare disease along with the implications of making a diagnosis of leukodystrophy in a psychiatric setting is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-29559382011-03-15 CHILDHOOD LEUKODYSTROPHY PRESENTING AS SECONDARY BIPOLAR DISORDER Duggal, Harpreet S. Sinha, Vinod K. Nizamie, S.Haque Indian J Psychiatry Case Report Leukodystrophies are rare dysmyelinating disorders of the nervous system, which occasionally have an initial psychiatric presentation. This report describes a case of a 9-year-old boy whose initial presentation resembled a bipolar disorder but subsequent work-up revealed an underlying leukodystrophy, most likely Alexander's disease. The course of this rare disease along with the implications of making a diagnosis of leukodystrophy in a psychiatric setting is discussed. Medknow Publications 2001 /pmc/articles/PMC2955938/ /pubmed/21407844 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Duggal, Harpreet S.
Sinha, Vinod K.
Nizamie, S.Haque
CHILDHOOD LEUKODYSTROPHY PRESENTING AS SECONDARY BIPOLAR DISORDER
title CHILDHOOD LEUKODYSTROPHY PRESENTING AS SECONDARY BIPOLAR DISORDER
title_full CHILDHOOD LEUKODYSTROPHY PRESENTING AS SECONDARY BIPOLAR DISORDER
title_fullStr CHILDHOOD LEUKODYSTROPHY PRESENTING AS SECONDARY BIPOLAR DISORDER
title_full_unstemmed CHILDHOOD LEUKODYSTROPHY PRESENTING AS SECONDARY BIPOLAR DISORDER
title_short CHILDHOOD LEUKODYSTROPHY PRESENTING AS SECONDARY BIPOLAR DISORDER
title_sort childhood leukodystrophy presenting as secondary bipolar disorder
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2955938/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21407844
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