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Obsessive compulsive disorder following left middle cerebral artery infarct
1Woodbridge Hospital and the Institute of Mental Health, Singapore.
Singapore Medical Journal
|April 3, 2001
Abstract:
A case of a 37-year-old male who developed compulsive washing after a massive infarct involving the left middle cerebral artery, is described. Although an obsessive compulsive disorder can occur following neurological disorders,there have been no previous reports of it occurring following a middle cerebral artery infarct.