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The relevance of clinical autopsies in a psychiatric institute
P S Chandra1, S K Shankar, T Asha
1Senior Resident Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bangalore - 560 029.
Abstract:
The pattern of psychiatric syndromes/mental illnesses among the 61 clinical autopsies carried out during the past decade in a psychiatric Institute in South India, is documented. Among the cases autopsied, 26.2% had clinical diagnosis of Schizophrenia, 21.3% dementia, 19.67% manic depressive Psychosis, the rest being cases of neurosis, mental retardation, alcoholism and other Psychosis. The importance of an autopsy study in understanding the pathomorphological basis of mental illness is highlighted.
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