Kleine-Levin syndrome: a cause of diagnostic confusion
M Pike, G Stores, M Pike, G Stores
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.
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