Diagnosis of frontal meningioma presenting with psychiatric symptoms

The frontal lobes of the brain are notoriously “silent”: Benign tumors such as meningiomas that compress the frontal lobes from the outside may not produce any symptoms other than progressive change of personality and intellect until they are large. We present two cases with symptoms suggestive of d...

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Autores principales: Yakhmi, Saurabh, Sidhu, B. S., Kaur, Jaswinder, Kaur, Amarjit
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4314926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25657465
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.148534
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description The frontal lobes of the brain are notoriously “silent”: Benign tumors such as meningiomas that compress the frontal lobes from the outside may not produce any symptoms other than progressive change of personality and intellect until they are large. We present two cases with symptoms suggestive of depressive episodes, which on further investigations showed space occupying lesions suggestive of frontal meningiomas.
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spelling pubmed-43149262015-02-05 Diagnosis of frontal meningioma presenting with psychiatric symptoms Yakhmi, Saurabh Sidhu, B. S. Kaur, Jaswinder Kaur, Amarjit Indian J Psychiatry Case Report The frontal lobes of the brain are notoriously “silent”: Benign tumors such as meningiomas that compress the frontal lobes from the outside may not produce any symptoms other than progressive change of personality and intellect until they are large. We present two cases with symptoms suggestive of depressive episodes, which on further investigations showed space occupying lesions suggestive of frontal meningiomas. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4314926/ /pubmed/25657465 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.148534 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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