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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
| 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. |
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