Resistant bipolar disorder precipitated by Behcet's syndrome

Bipolar Disorders

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 260-263

  Alevizos, Basil ^a   Anagnostara, C ^a   Christodoulou, G N ^a  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Behcet's syndrome; Bipolar disorder; Organic mood disorder

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DICLOFENAC; LITHIUM; LITHIUM CARBONATE; OLANZAPINE; PERPHENAZINE; VALPROIC ACID; ZUCLOPENTHIXOL;

ADULT; AGITATION; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; BIPOLAR DEPRESSION; BIPOLAR I DISORDER; BIPOLAR MANIA; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DETERIORATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; EUPHORIA; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; GENITAL ULCER; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; IRIDOCYCLITIS; KLEPTOMANIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; MANIA; MOOD DISORDER; MOUTH LESION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYURIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SLEEP DISORDER; TREMOR;

ANTICONVULSANTS; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; BEHCET SYNDROME; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE;

EID: 2542550399     PISSN: 13985647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-5618.2004.00114.x     Document Type: Article

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