Psychiatric Manifestation of Neurosyphilis
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Psychiatric manifestations of neurosyphilis.
To investigate referral patterns, initial diagnoses and clinical features of patients with neurosyphilis who present with psychiatric manifestations, records were kept of 21 such patients admitted to an acute psychiatric ward. In none of the 12 cases referred from primary care workers was the possibility of neurosyphilis considered. In only 3 cases was this diagnosis considered on admission to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Psychiatrists' Association of Nepal
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2350-8949,2091-2862
DOI: 10.3126/jpan.v1i1.9925