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of 'Neuroleptic malignant syndrome'
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The neuroleptic malignant syndrome and its differentiation from lethal catatonia.
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Fleischhacker WW, Unterweger B, Kane JM, Hinterhuber H
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Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1990;81(1):3.
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome and lethal catatonia are potentially life-threatening diseases with similar clinical features, including fever, akinesia and rigidity. Differential diagnosis is difficult but possible by exact clinical observation and a detailed history of the 2 weeks prior to the onset of illness.
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Department of Psychiatry, Innsbruck University Clinics, Austria.
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