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Case report| Volume 22, ISSUE 5, P650-652, May 1987

Hyponatremia-induced organic mental disorder may mask paranoid schizophrenia

  • W.Wolfgang Fleischhacker
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    From the Biological Psychiatry Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Innsbruck University Clinics, Innsbruck, Austria
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  • Christian Barnas
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    From the Biological Psychiatry Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Innsbruck University Clinics, Innsbruck, Austria
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  • Maximilian Ledochowski
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    From the Coronary Care Unit. Department of Internal Medicine, Innsbruck University Clinics, Innsbruck, Austria
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-3223(87)90192-2
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      Publication history

      Received in revised form: October 22, 1986
      Received: August 26, 1986

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-3223(87)90192-2

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      © 1987 Published by Elsevier Inc.

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