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

作     者：Joao Gama Marques Jo?o Gama Marques

作者机构：Hospital Julio de MatosCentro Hospitalar Psiquiatrico de LisboaClinica Universitaria de Psiquiatriae Psicologia MedicaFaculdade de Medicina Universidade de LisboaLisboa Portugal 

出 版 物：《General Psychiatry》 (综合精神医学（英文）)

年 卷 期：2019年第32卷第1期

页      面：46-48页

核心收录：

学科分类：0402[教育学-心理学(可授教育学、理学学位）] 1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 1002[医学-临床医学] 1001[医学-基础医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 10[医学] 1009[医学-特种医学] 

主　　题：Twenty years misdiagnosis schizophrenia 

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.