A case report of brief psychotic disorder with catalepsy associated with sequential life-threatening events in a patient with advanced cancer
Abstract Background Cancer is commonly perceived as life-threatening and universally stressful; however, brief psychotic disorder, which occurs in response to extremely stressful events, has not been reported. Case presentation A 63-year-old woman, who was diagnosed as having pancreatic cancer with...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-04-01
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| Series: | BioPsychoSocial Medicine |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13030-017-0095-7 |