Kleine-Levin syndrome: a cause of diagnostic confusion.
Open Access
- 1 October 1994
- journal article
- case report
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 71 (4) , 355-357
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.71.4.355
Abstract
The case is described of a boy with the Kleine-Levin syndrome in whom prominent behavioural disturbances and the initial absence of a clear cyclical pattern obscured the diagnosis. Treatment with lithium was effective.Keywords
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