Am J Psychiatry 1988; 145:363-364
Copyright © 1988 by American Psychiatric Association
Characteristics of psychiatric consultations in a pediatric cancer center
DS Rait, PB Jacobsen, MS Lederberg and JC Holland
Department of Neurology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
Data on psychiatric consultations with 58 pediatric cancer patients are
summarized. Although most patients received DSM-III axis I diagnoses,
adjustment disorder was diagnosed in 30 cases (52%). The patients with
primarily depressive features were significantly older than those with
anxious features.
