Citation

Stedman TJ, Price J. Aust. N. Zeal. J. Psychiatry 1988; 22(2): 203-206.

Affiliation

Wolston Park Hospital, Wacol, Qld.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3401189

Abstract

Two cases are described in which serious violent acts occurred during the course of a psychotic illness and in which papillary carcinoma of the thyroid was later diagnosed. Several possible explanations are examined, including a suggestion that neuroendocrine changes reportedly associated with violence may have allowed existing thyroid cancers to grow so as to become clinically apparent.

Language: en