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Case Reports
. 1993 May;86(5):591-2.
doi: 10.1097/00007611-199305000-00024.

Tetanus, pseudotetanus, or conversion disorder: a diagnostic dilemma?

V Barnes  1 , M R Ware
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Tetanus, pseudotetanus, or conversion disorder: a diagnostic dilemma?

V Barnes et al. South Med J. 1993 May.

Abstract

Failure to consider conversion disorder in a patient with acute, tetanus-like symptoms led to unnecessary medical expenditures and delayed appropriate psychiatric intervention. Patients presenting these clinical symptoms need a comprehensive evaluation, with careful attention to details in the psychosocial history. While tetanus is rarely encountered now in the United States, conversion disorder is commonly encountered in both medical and psychiatric populations.

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