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Patients with Acute Stroke Presenting Like Conversion Disorder

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Abstract Conversion disorder is a form of somatoform disorders which has a high prevalence among women, individuals with lower socioeconomic status, under-educated populations, and in developing countries. However, up to… Click to show full abstract

Abstract Conversion disorder is a form of somatoform disorders which has a high prevalence among women, individuals with lower socioeconomic status, under-educated populations, and in developing countries. However, up to one-half of patients who had been initially diagnosed with conversion disorder were eventually shown to have an underlying organic pathology–mostly neurological or non-psychiatric conditions. In this article, two patients are presented who accessed the emergency department (ED) with an initial diagnosis of conversion disorder in the ambulance that turned out to be stroke. Serinken M, Karcioglu O. Patients with acute stroke presenting like conversion disorder. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2018;33(4):451–453

Keywords: stroke presenting; patients acute; conversion; acute stroke; conversion disorder

Journal Title: Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
Year Published: 2018

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