Antinuclear antibodies in psychiatric illness: their relationship to diagnosis and drug treatment.
- 28 June 1975
- Vol. 2 (5973), 724-725
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.2.5973.724
Abstract
Antinuclear antibodies occurred more often and in higher titres in psychiatric patients than in controls. Anti-DNA antibodies were not found. We suggest that antinuclear antibodies may be drug-induced and that lithium carbonate may have a particular tendency to produce this reaction.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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