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Sichuan Mental Health
; (6): 77-79, 2022.
Artículo
en Chino
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| ID: wpr-987455
RESUMEN
This paper reported a case of a 29-year-old male patient with mental disorder caused by prion disease was misdiagnosed as depressive episode with somatic symptoms. The patient's symptoms were initially predominantly psychiatric, with progressive worsening of somatic symptoms, and he died more than 1 year after his first onset. Prion disease caused various manifestations of mental symptoms, which can easily lead to missed diagnosis and misdiagnosis. This paper discussed the case, in order to provide references for the clinical diagnosis of mental disorder caused by prion disease.