THE RELEVANCE OF CLINICAL AUTOPSIES IN A PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE

The pattern of psychiatric syndromes/mental illnesses among the 61 clinical autopsies carried out during the past decade in a psychiatric Institute in South India, is documented. Among the cases autopsied, 26.2% had clinical diagnosis of Schizophrenia, 21.3% dementia, 19.67% manic depressive Psychos...

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Autores principales: Chandra, Prabha S., Shankar, S.K., Asha, T., Vythilingam, Meena, Rao, T. Vasudev, Das, Sarala, Channabasavanna, S.M.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1988
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3008796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927343
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author Chandra, Prabha S.
Shankar, S.K.
Asha, T.
Vythilingam, Meena
Rao, T. Vasudev
Das, Sarala
Channabasavanna, S.M.
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Asha, T.
Vythilingam, Meena
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description The pattern of psychiatric syndromes/mental illnesses among the 61 clinical autopsies carried out during the past decade in a psychiatric Institute in South India, is documented. Among the cases autopsied, 26.2% had clinical diagnosis of Schizophrenia, 21.3% dementia, 19.67% manic depressive Psychosis, the rest being cases of neurosis, mental retardation, alcoholism and other Psychosis. The importance of an autopsy study in understanding the pathomorphological basis of mental illness is highlighted.
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spelling pubmed-30087962011-09-16 THE RELEVANCE OF CLINICAL AUTOPSIES IN A PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE Chandra, Prabha S. Shankar, S.K. Asha, T. Vythilingam, Meena Rao, T. Vasudev Das, Sarala Channabasavanna, S.M. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article The pattern of psychiatric syndromes/mental illnesses among the 61 clinical autopsies carried out during the past decade in a psychiatric Institute in South India, is documented. Among the cases autopsied, 26.2% had clinical diagnosis of Schizophrenia, 21.3% dementia, 19.67% manic depressive Psychosis, the rest being cases of neurosis, mental retardation, alcoholism and other Psychosis. The importance of an autopsy study in understanding the pathomorphological basis of mental illness is highlighted. Medknow Publications 1988 /pmc/articles/PMC3008796/ /pubmed/21927343 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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Chandra, Prabha S.
Shankar, S.K.
Asha, T.
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Rao, T. Vasudev
Das, Sarala
Channabasavanna, S.M.
THE RELEVANCE OF CLINICAL AUTOPSIES IN A PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE
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