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Ruptured intracranial dermoid cyst presenting with neuropsychiatric symptoms: a case report.
- Source :
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Southern medical journal [South Med J] 2009 Jan; Vol. 102 (1), pp. 98-100. - Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- Psychiatric symptoms associated with frontal lobe unruptured or ruptured intracranial dermoid cysts are rarely described in the medical literature. The case of a 58-year-old man with a chronic history of anxiety, major depression, and obsessive compulsive disorder who presented with new onset auditory and visual phenomena is described. This case illustrates the need to include an underlying brain tumor in the differential diagnosis when encountering new onset auditory and visual phenomena in patients with chronic mood and/or anxiety disorders.
- Subjects :
- Brain Neoplasms pathology
Brain Neoplasms surgery
Dermoid Cyst pathology
Dermoid Cyst surgery
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Middle Aged
Rupture, Spontaneous
Brain Neoplasms psychology
Depressive Disorder, Major etiology
Dermoid Cyst psychology
Hallucinations etiology
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder etiology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1541-8243
- Volume :
- 102
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Southern medical journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 19077771
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1097/SMJ.0b013e318188b290