RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Twenty years of misdiagnosis of schizophrenia in a patient with Dandy-Walker variant syndrome
JF General Psychiatry
JO Gen Psych
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP e100031
DO 10.1136/gpsych-2018-100031
VO 32
IS 1
A1 João Gama Marques
YR 2019
UL http://gpsych.bmj.com/content/32/1/e100031.abstract
AB 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.