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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Case Report
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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spelling pubmed-61381092018-09-27 Treated for psychosis and presenting with prominent speech and language abnormalities: A case report of an adult with a frontal lobe teratoma Lippi, Gian Naude, Elna S Afr J Psychiatr Case Report 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. AOSIS 2016-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC6138109/ /pubmed/30263164 http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajpsychiatry.v22i1.924 Text en © 2016. The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
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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
title Treated for psychosis and presenting with prominent speech and language abnormalities: A case report of an adult with a frontal lobe teratoma
title_full Treated for psychosis and presenting with prominent speech and language abnormalities: A case report of an adult with a frontal lobe teratoma
title_fullStr Treated for psychosis and presenting with prominent speech and language abnormalities: A case report of an adult with a frontal lobe teratoma
title_full_unstemmed Treated for psychosis and presenting with prominent speech and language abnormalities: A case report of an adult with a frontal lobe teratoma
title_short Treated for psychosis and presenting with prominent speech and language abnormalities: A case report of an adult with a frontal lobe teratoma
title_sort treated for psychosis and presenting with prominent speech and language abnormalities: a case report of an adult with a frontal lobe teratoma
topic Case Report
url 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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