Secondary mania occurring twice in an elderly patient followingsurgery carried out under local anaesthesia


J.E. Clark
Bok Engelsk 1996
Utgitt
1996
Omfang
Side 49- 52
Opplysninger
A case secondary mania occurring in a 64-year-old women on twoseparate occasions following surgery under local lignocaineanaesthesia is reported. The episodes of mania were temporallyrelated to the surgery and fulfilled DSM-III-R criteria. Thepossibility of a reaction to lignocaine is discussed and it isconcluded that the mania was secondary to the physical insult of thesurgical intervention.
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