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Ketan Yerneni1, Harsh Wadhwa1, Parastou Fatemi1

  • 1Department of Neurological Surgery, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.

Journal of Neurosurgery. Case Lessons
|July 20, 2022
PubMed
Summary

Conversion disorder, a neurological condition with unexplained symptoms, requires careful diagnosis after ruling out other medical issues. Surgeons should consider this functional psychiatric disorder in postoperative patients, especially in neurosurgery.

Keywords:
ACDF = anterior cervical discectomy and fusionDSM-5 = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth EditionEEG = electroencephalographyFNSD = functional neurological symptom disorderICU = intensive care unitMRI = magnetic resonance imagingSSEP = somatosensory evoked potentialconversion disorderfunctional neurological disorderspine surgery

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