Psychiatric symptoms and Marfan: Part of the syndrome or incidental to it?

World Journal of Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 229-230

  Wanson, Laurent ^a   Godfroid, Ivan O ^a  

^a Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Charleroi   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Marfan syndrome; psychiatric co morbidity; theoretical classification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; MENTAL DISORDERS;

EID: 0038810197     PISSN: 15622975     EISSN: 18141412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15622970209150627     Document Type: Article

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