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Neuropsychiatric Syndrome Complicating Obstructive Jaundice of Recent Onset

Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders

P. A. Barker, M.B., M.R.C.P.E., D.P.M., D.C.H., Senior Registrar Psychiatrist

Newcastle General Hospital

(Both authors were formerly Registrars an the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders)

ABSTRACT

This report describes a neuropsychiatric syndrome occurring in a schizophrenic woman who developed obstructive jaundice due to gall-stones. A survey of the literature suggests that such a complication is very unusual in obstructive jaundice of this type.