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Organic Reaction in AIDS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

G. L. Milner*
Affiliation:
All Saints' Hospital, Lodge Road, Birmingham

Abstract

A case of organic brain syndrome in a patient with AIDS is described. The implications for medical and psychiatric services are discussed and problems highlighted.

Type
Brief Reports
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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