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Schizophrenic Psychosis with a Tendency of Systemic Ossification
Author(s) -
Fukunishi Isao,
Hosokawa Kiyoshi
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1988.tb01973.x
Subject(s) - psychosis , psychology , psychiatry , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , medicine
We report here a case of schizophrenic psychosis with a tendency of systemic ossification. Upon further examinations, she exhibited ossification of the spinal ligament (diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis, DISH) resulting from a coappearance of ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL), ossification of the yellow ligament (OYL) and ankylosing spinal hyperostosis (ASH). There have been a very few reports where a tendency of hyperostosis was observed for ossification of the spinal ligaments such as OPLL, OYL and ASH. In addition, she exhibited hyperostosis frontalis interne (HFI). It appears in this case that both DISH and HFI resulted from similar ossification and exhibited respective clinical symptoms. Although it is thought that these diseases resulted from some metabolic abnormality, no abnormality was detected.