Commentary Open Access
Volume 1 | Issue 2 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/Psychiatry.1.006
Psychiatric comorbidities of median arcuate ligament syndrome: Indications for intervention across the lifespan
Estée CH Feldman1, Collen Stiles-Shields1, Grace Zee Mak1, Christopher L Skelly1,*, Tina Drossos 1
- 1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, The University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Sciences, Chicago, IL, USA
Corresponding Author
Christopher L Skelly, cskelly@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu
Received Date: November 20, 2020
Accepted Date: March 18, 2021
Feldman EC, Stiles-Shields C, Mak GZ, Skelly CL, Drossos T. Psychiatric comorbidities of median arcuate ligament syndrome: Indications for intervention across the lifespan. Curr Res Psychiatry. 2021; 1(2):17-19.
Copyright: © 2021 Feldman EC, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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