Conversion disorder presenting as multiple sclerosis

From: Military Medicine | Date: October 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Michael B. Russo, MD*

Franklin R. Brooks, PhD^

Jason Fontenot, MD^^

Bruce M. Dopler, MD (sec) Edward T. Neely, MD (sec)

Alan W. Halliday, MD (sec)

We describe a patient originally diagnosed with clinically definite multiple sclerosis whose actual diagnosis of conversion disorder was revealed when his examination was found to be fictitious, his radiological, electrophysiological, and biochemical tests were determined to be normal, and his symptoms were reversed through the use of sodium pentothal and hypnosis.

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The co-morbidity of psychiatric illness in patients with multiple ...

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