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The neuroleptic malignant syndrome and its differentiation from lethal catatonia
W W Fleischhacker1, B Unterweger, J M Kane
1Department of Psychiatry, Innsbruck University Clinics, Austria.
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome and lethal catatonia are potentially life-threatening diseases with similar clinical features, including fever, akinesia and rigidity. Differential diagnosis is difficult but possible by exact clinical observation and a detailed history of the 2 weeks prior to the onset of illness.