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ECT for major depression in a patient with acute brain trauma
The American Journal of Psychiatry
|July 1, 1983
Abstract:
A woman with depression and cerebral cortical laceration caused by a self-inflicted gunshot wound received ECT 3 weeks after wounding herself and had no untoward effects. The authors discuss relative contraindications to ECT based on head injury and posttraumatic seizures.