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Treated for psychosis and presenting with prominent speech and language abnormalities: A case report of an adult with a frontal lobe teratoma

We report on a rare case of an adult presenting with psychotic symptoms, including prominent thought form disorder and an aphasia. Further investigation revealed the presence of a mature teratoma in the left frontal lobe, which could have played a pathophysiological role in the development of both t...

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Autores principales: Lippi, Gian, Naude, Elna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AOSIS 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6138109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30263164
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajpsychiatry.v22i1.924
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Sumario:We report on a rare case of an adult presenting with psychotic symptoms, including prominent thought form disorder and an aphasia. Further investigation revealed the presence of a mature teratoma in the left frontal lobe, which could have played a pathophysiological role in the development of both the psychosis and the language impairment.