Neuroleptic malignant syndrome: a case report with post-mortem brain and muscle pathology.
- 1 August 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
- Vol. 52 (8) , 1006-1009
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.52.8.1006
Abstract
The neuroleptic malignant syndrome is a rare but dangerous complication of treatment with neuroleptics. The aetiology and pathophysiology of the syndrome are reviewed, and a fatal case is presented where both brain and muscle pathology are described. Striking myopathic changes in this case, accompanied by only minimal and non-specific brain abnormalities, support a peripheral rather than central mechanism for the hyperthermia.This publication has 31 references indexed in Scilit:
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