Objective: There is an extensive corpus of knowledge about how misinformation may distort autobiographical memories. A diagnostic error can be conceptualised as a form of misinformation. Methods: The authors discuss the case of a 58-year-old woman who was given a misdiagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Results: The patient was deeply convinced that the diagnosis was correct, even when she was conf...

The different causes of misdiagnosis in psychiatry are reviewed, and the ethical implications of such misdiagnoses are discussed.

Introduction: Despite reports of pseudo lymphovascular space involvement (LVSI) in total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH) in recent years, we recently experienced a misdiagnosis of pseudo-LVSI after TLH for uterine myoma, having observed irregularities in excised specimens. Additional surgery found no abnormalities, resulting in an unfortunate case of overtreatment. For this reason, we reviewed ...

Of 1300 epileptic patients 76 (5.8%) were found to have juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME). These 76 patients were examined at the epilepsy outpatient clinic of Bakirköy State Hospital for Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases between 1991 and 1996 and data obtained were analysed retrospectively. Clinically typical absence seizures were reported in 40.8%, myoclonic jerks in 100%, and generalized...

1 February 1996 Case report A 54 year old West Indian woman with hypertension and diet controlled diabetes mellitus was admitted with a six week history of general malaise, fever, mouth ulceration, myalgia, arthralgia, and arthritis; previously she had been well. On examination she was noted to be feverish (38°C) with nail bed infarction, splinter haemorrhages, and mouth ulceration, but no rash...