[Early childhood psychosis versus early childhood autism? Differential diagnosis based on one week observation in an inpatient setting].
We report on the case of a 4-year old child suffering for the past six months from a lingering psychotic development. Several months of outpatient observation did not permit a clear differential diagnosis of either childhood autism or an early psychosis. During a one-week inpatient stay at our hospital recurring productive-psychotic episodes were observed that finally led to the exclusion of the diagnosis of "childhood autism" (ICD-10 F 84.0 (Dilling et al., 1993)) and to the diagnosis of "other disintegrative childhood disorder" (ICD-10: F 84.3 (Dilling et al., 1993)).
Niederhofer
H
H
Univ.-Klinik für Psychiatrie, Abt. für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Innsbruck.
Kucan
S
S
Hackenberg
B
B
Huber
M
M
Gasteiger
W
W
D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019370:Observation; D010343:Patient Admission; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology