TY - JOUR T1 - Twenty years of misdiagnosis of schizophrenia in a patient with Dandy-Walker variant syndrome JF - General Psychiatry JO - Gen Psych DO - 10.1136/gpsych-2018-100031 VL - 32 IS - 1 SP - e100031 AU - João Gama Marques Y1 - 2019/01/01 UR - http://gpsych.bmj.com/content/32/1/e100031.abstract N2 - 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. ER -