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Should the diagnosis of late paraphrenia be abandoned?1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Osvaldo P. Almeida ,
Robert Howard ,
Hans Förstl  and
Raymond Levy
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , February 1992 , pp. 11 - 14
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