A case report of Lhermitte–Duclos disease revealed by psychiatric disturbances

BACKGROUND: Lhermitte–Duclos disease (LDD) is a rare cerebellar lesion characterized by a hamartomatous lesion in the posterior fossa. Mainly diagnosed by MRI, the clinical presentation is usually made of neurological symptoms. CASE PRESENTATION: We present here a rare case of a woman who developed...

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Autores principales: Otheman, Yassine, Aalouane, Rachid, Aarab, Chadia, Rammouz, Ismail
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5450341/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28572832
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12991-017-0147-1
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author Otheman, Yassine
Aalouane, Rachid
Aarab, Chadia
Rammouz, Ismail
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description BACKGROUND: Lhermitte–Duclos disease (LDD) is a rare cerebellar lesion characterized by a hamartomatous lesion in the posterior fossa. Mainly diagnosed by MRI, the clinical presentation is usually made of neurological symptoms. CASE PRESENTATION: We present here a rare case of a woman who developed depressive symptoms that inaugurated the clinical presentation of LDD. CONCLUSION: Psychiatric symptoms may occur in all brain lesions, delaying the diagnosis and causing therapeutic escalation. More attention should be given by practitioners to psychiatric aspects of LDD.
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spelling pubmed-54503412017-06-01 A case report of Lhermitte–Duclos disease revealed by psychiatric disturbances Otheman, Yassine Aalouane, Rachid Aarab, Chadia Rammouz, Ismail Ann Gen Psychiatry Case Report BACKGROUND: Lhermitte–Duclos disease (LDD) is a rare cerebellar lesion characterized by a hamartomatous lesion in the posterior fossa. Mainly diagnosed by MRI, the clinical presentation is usually made of neurological symptoms. CASE PRESENTATION: We present here a rare case of a woman who developed depressive symptoms that inaugurated the clinical presentation of LDD. CONCLUSION: Psychiatric symptoms may occur in all brain lesions, delaying the diagnosis and causing therapeutic escalation. More attention should be given by practitioners to psychiatric aspects of LDD. BioMed Central 2017-05-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5450341/ /pubmed/28572832 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12991-017-0147-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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