Ustabil rygfraktur hos en patient med paranoid skizofreni
Engelsk titel: Paranoid schizophrenic patient with unstable spinal fracture
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Författare:
Ydemann, Mogens
Email: ufl@ydemann.dk
Språk: Dan
Antal referenser: 5
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UI-nummer: 12031767
Sammanfattning
The misdiagnosis of somatic illness in the psychiatric population can have grave consequences. Somatic symptoms are easily overseen or misinterpreted and a careful history and examination is essential when approaching this group of patients. We report a case of a patient with a history of paranoid schizophrenia, who had her somatic symptoms misinterpreted as being of psychiatric origin. This misinterpretation gave rise to an admission to a psychiatric ward of a patient who actually presented with an unstable spinal fracture.