Gilles de la Tourette syndrome mimicking an eating disorder

Van den Eynde F., Sentuerk V., Naudts K.

TURK PSIKIYATRI DERGISI, cilt.18, sa.4, ss.375-378, 2007 (SSCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 18 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2007
  • Dergi Adı: TURK PSIKIYATRI DERGISI
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.375-378
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Tourette syndrome, vomiting, tics, eating disorders, diagnosis, TIC DISORDERS, CLASSIFICATION
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Vomiting and retching are behaviours that are port of the clinical manifestation of several disorders. Rarely, vomiting is actually tic and, when not recognized, may mislead physicians and other caregivers to erroneously diagnose a medical or psychiatric disorder without considering a tic-disorder.