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Twenty years of misdiagnosis of schizophrenia in a patient with Dandy-Walker variant syndrome

Various case reports of patients with Dandy-Walker variant syndrome mimicking schizophrenia have been published in the last 20 years, suggesting that this neurodevelopment disorder should be part of the differential diagnosis for every patient with a first episode of psychosis. In this report, it is...

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Autor principal: Gama Marques, João
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6362872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30815635
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gpsych-2018-100031
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description Various case reports of patients with Dandy-Walker variant syndrome mimicking schizophrenia have been published in the last 20 years, suggesting that this neurodevelopment disorder should be part of the differential diagnosis for every patient with a first episode of psychosis. In this report, it is presented that a patient who was diagnosed and treated as a paranoid schizophrenic for 20 years and had four bone fractures secondary to ataxic gait impairment, before performing a neuroimaging examination that revealed Dandy-Walker variant syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-63628722019-02-27 Twenty years of misdiagnosis of schizophrenia in a patient with Dandy-Walker variant syndrome Gama Marques, João Gen Psychiatr Case Report Various case reports of patients with Dandy-Walker variant syndrome mimicking schizophrenia have been published in the last 20 years, suggesting that this neurodevelopment disorder should be part of the differential diagnosis for every patient with a first episode of psychosis. In this report, it is presented that a patient who was diagnosed and treated as a paranoid schizophrenic for 20 years and had four bone fractures secondary to ataxic gait impairment, before performing a neuroimaging examination that revealed Dandy-Walker variant syndrome. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6362872/ /pubmed/30815635 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gpsych-2018-100031 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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Twenty years of misdiagnosis of schizophrenia in a patient with Dandy-Walker variant syndrome
title Twenty years of misdiagnosis of schizophrenia in a patient with Dandy-Walker variant syndrome
title_full Twenty years of misdiagnosis of schizophrenia in a patient with Dandy-Walker variant syndrome
title_fullStr Twenty years of misdiagnosis of schizophrenia in a patient with Dandy-Walker variant syndrome
title_full_unstemmed Twenty years of misdiagnosis of schizophrenia in a patient with Dandy-Walker variant syndrome
title_short Twenty years of misdiagnosis of schizophrenia in a patient with Dandy-Walker variant syndrome
title_sort twenty years of misdiagnosis of schizophrenia in a patient with dandy-walker variant syndrome
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6362872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30815635
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gpsych-2018-100031
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