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

• 作者: Joao Gama Marques
• 来源期刊: 综合精神医学(英文)
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: Twenty YEARS MISDIAGNOSIS SCHIZOPHRENIA
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（1）
• 页码范围: 46-48
• 页数: 3页
• 分类号: R

摘要

SUMMARY Various case reports of patients with Dandy-Walker variant syndrome mimicking schizophrenia have been published in the last 20 years, suggest!ng 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.