The neuroleptic malignant syndrome and its differentiation from lethal catatonia.
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome and lethal catatonia are potentially life-threatening diseases with similar clinical features, including fever, akinesia and rigidity. Differential diagnosis is difficult but possible by exact clinical observation and a detailed history of the 2 weeks prior to the onset of illness.
Department of Psychiatry, Innsbruck University Clinics, Austria.
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Fleischhacker
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Unterweger
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Kane
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Hinterhuber
D002389:Catatonia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D009459:Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*