@article {Gama Marquese100031, author = {Jo{\~a}o Gama Marques}, title = {Twenty years of misdiagnosis of schizophrenia in a patient with Dandy-Walker variant syndrome}, volume = {32}, number = {1}, elocation-id = {e100031}, year = {2019}, doi = {10.1136/gpsych-2018-100031}, publisher = {General Psychiatry}, abstract = {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.}, URL = {https://gpsych.bmj.com/content/32/1/e100031}, eprint = {https://gpsych.bmj.com/content/32/1/e100031.full.pdf}, journal = {General Psychiatry} }