Citation

YadollahiKhales G, Ghorbani A, Borhani-Haghighi A. J. Nerv. Ment. Dis. 2015; 203(2): 154-155.

Affiliation

*Clinical Neurology Research Center and †Student Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz; ‡Department of Neurology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran; and §Department of Neurology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/NMD.0000000000000253

PMID

25629667

Abstract

Because psychogenic tinnitus can be a presentation of a wide range of psychiatric diseases such as anxiety disorders, somatoform and mood disorders, and personality disorders, the presence of tinnitus in the patient in this case can be easily misdiagnosed as her coexisting major depressive disorder. If brain imaging had been the only modality used, this case patient's cervical dissecting pseudoaneurysm would have been overlooked. Examination of carotid pulses and detection of carotid bruits were crucial parts in the diagnosis of the current patient's pseudoaneurysm.

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