Kleine-Levin syndrome: a cause of diagnostic confusion.
The case is described of a boy with the Kleine-Levin syndrome in whom prominent behavioural disturbances and the initial absence of a clear cyclical pattern obscured the diagnosis. Treatment with lithium was effective.
Pike
M
M
Department of Paediatrics, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford.
Stores
G
G
D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006970:Disorders of Excessive Somnolence / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D017593:Kleine-Levin Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D008094:Lithium / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008297:Male; D017286:Polysomnography
D008094:Lithium