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| Year : 2005 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 58-59 |
Psychotic symptoms in acromegaly
Denzil Pinto, AT Safeekh, Mohit Trivedi
Department of Psychiatry, Father Muller Medical College, Kankanady, Mangalore, Karnataka 575002, India
Correspondence Address:
A T Safeekh
Department of Psychiatry, Father Muller Medical College, Kankanady, Mangalore, Karnataka 575002
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0019-5545.46078
Various psychiatric symptoms have been reported in patients with acromegaly. Most of them are personality changes characterized by lack of initiative and spontaneity. There are few case reports of the presence of auditory and visual hallucinations, and delusions in patients with acromegaly. We report a patient with acromegaly who had psychotic symptoms including Schneiderian first-rank symptoms.
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