MYXOEDEMA PRESENTING WITH PSYCHOSIS

Presented here is the case report of a lady who was referred for evaluation and management of frank psychotic manifestations. A carefully taken history and physical findings pointed to the presence of hypothyroidism. This was later confirmed by laboratory evaluation. The patient improved after thyro...

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Autores principales: Rao, Ashok Chandra R, Bhat, V.K., Kini, Sathish
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1990
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2990183/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927474
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spelling pubmed-29901832011-09-16 MYXOEDEMA PRESENTING WITH PSYCHOSIS Rao, Ashok Chandra R Bhat, V.K. Kini, Sathish Indian J Psychiatry Case Report Presented here is the case report of a lady who was referred for evaluation and management of frank psychotic manifestations. A carefully taken history and physical findings pointed to the presence of hypothyroidism. This was later confirmed by laboratory evaluation. The patient improved after thyroxine supplementation. Medknow Publications 1990 /pmc/articles/PMC2990183/ /pubmed/21927474 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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Rao, Ashok Chandra R
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Kini, Sathish
MYXOEDEMA PRESENTING WITH PSYCHOSIS
title MYXOEDEMA PRESENTING WITH PSYCHOSIS
title_full MYXOEDEMA PRESENTING WITH PSYCHOSIS
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title_full_unstemmed MYXOEDEMA PRESENTING WITH PSYCHOSIS
title_short MYXOEDEMA PRESENTING WITH PSYCHOSIS
title_sort myxoedema presenting with psychosis
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