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Cavernous Angioma of the Corpus Callosum Presenting with Acute Psychosis

Psychiatric symptoms may occasionally be related to anatomic alterations of brain structures. Particularly, corpus callosum lesions seem to play a role in the change of patients' behavior. We present a case of a sudden psychotic attack presumably due to a hemorrhagic cavernous angioma of the co...

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Autores principales: Pavesi, Giacomo, Causin, Francesco, Feletti, Alberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4006597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24825949
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/243286
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author Pavesi, Giacomo
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description Psychiatric symptoms may occasionally be related to anatomic alterations of brain structures. Particularly, corpus callosum lesions seem to play a role in the change of patients' behavior. We present a case of a sudden psychotic attack presumably due to a hemorrhagic cavernous angioma of the corpus callosum, which was surgically removed with complete resolution of symptoms. Although a developmental defect like agenesis or lipoma is present in the majority of these cases, a growing lesion of the corpus callosum can rarely be the primary cause. Since it is potentially possible to cure these patients, clinicians should be aware of this association.
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spelling pubmed-40065972014-05-13 Cavernous Angioma of the Corpus Callosum Presenting with Acute Psychosis Pavesi, Giacomo Causin, Francesco Feletti, Alberto Behav Neurol Case Report Psychiatric symptoms may occasionally be related to anatomic alterations of brain structures. Particularly, corpus callosum lesions seem to play a role in the change of patients' behavior. We present a case of a sudden psychotic attack presumably due to a hemorrhagic cavernous angioma of the corpus callosum, which was surgically removed with complete resolution of symptoms. Although a developmental defect like agenesis or lipoma is present in the majority of these cases, a growing lesion of the corpus callosum can rarely be the primary cause. Since it is potentially possible to cure these patients, clinicians should be aware of this association. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4006597/ /pubmed/24825949 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/243286 Text en Copyright © 2014 Giacomo Pavesi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pavesi, Giacomo
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Feletti, Alberto
Cavernous Angioma of the Corpus Callosum Presenting with Acute Psychosis
title Cavernous Angioma of the Corpus Callosum Presenting with Acute Psychosis
title_full Cavernous Angioma of the Corpus Callosum Presenting with Acute Psychosis
title_fullStr Cavernous Angioma of the Corpus Callosum Presenting with Acute Psychosis
title_full_unstemmed Cavernous Angioma of the Corpus Callosum Presenting with Acute Psychosis
title_short Cavernous Angioma of the Corpus Callosum Presenting with Acute Psychosis
title_sort cavernous angioma of the corpus callosum presenting with acute psychosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4006597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24825949
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/243286
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