Abstract
A 27-year-old female patient with an emphysematous cystitis associated with an eating
disorder and schizophrenia is described. To our knowledge, this is the first case
report of an emphysematous cystitis developed in those kinds of psychiatric disorders.
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Publication history
Accepted:
June 10,
2003
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© 2003 The British Infection Society. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
