ECT for the treatment of mood disorders in cancer patients

Convulsive Therapy

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 222-226

  Beale, Mark D ^a   Kellner, Charles H ^a   Parsons, Pamela J ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar affective disorder; Cancer; Depression; Electroconvulsive therapy; Mood disorders

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BONE NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MOOD DISORDERS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031445772     PISSN: 07498055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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