BACKGROUND: Atypical presentation of psychiatric symptoms can lead to a variety of misdiagnoses. Organic causes, including brain tumors, should be considered under these circumstances. METHODS: We present a case report of an 84-year-old woman with irritable, aggressive, and delusional behavior. Her...
We present a case of a patient admitted to a psychiatric hospital with psychotic symptoms and cognitive impairment but who was subsequently found to have an anterior interhemispheric falx meningioma. There must be a high index of suspicion for organic brain disease in patients over age 45 years pr...
Importantly, βTP concentrations are considerably affected by conditions such as bacterial meningitis, which causes its concentrations in CSF to decrease, and renal dysfunction, which causes its serum concentrations to increase [2,7]. Additionally, the method in which a secretion sample is collected ...
Surgical resection is the primary choice for symptomatic, observation failure meningiomas, or large tumors that are anticipated to causes symptoms soon. gross total resection (GTR) can cure the majority (70-80%) of patients. Radiation therapy (RT) has become a first-line treatment for ...
Many causes are thought to be associated with meningioma like trauma, viral infection, radiation and genetic factors. The signs and symptoms are variable, and some of them are specific to the location of the tumor. The diagnosis of meningioma is done by CT scan and MRI, in addition to ...
Meningioma and psychiatric symptoms: A case report and brief review. BACKGROUND: Atypical presentation of psychiatric symptoms can lead to a variety of misdiagnoses. Organic causes, including brain tumors, should be consider... Madhusoodanan,Subramoniam,Patel,... - 《Annals of Clinical Psychiatry》...
This lack of specific symptoms causes late diagnosis and they are usually masked by other more common diseases as herniated disk or degenerative spinal disease. If an early diagnosed is carried out, treatment outcomes are excellent. We present a case of cervical meningioma found by chance thanks ...
Because of their tendency to insinuate themselves into crevices and foramina in the brain, meningiomas may extend into the orbit along the sheaths of the optic nerve. This causes proptosis, usually with a normal sized optic foramen with no limitation of ocular rotation. Although meningiomas may ...
Despite successful surgery to remove the meningioma and SDH, the patient's condition continued to deteriorate, and she eventually died. The author raises several concerns, including the classification of meningiomas as benign tumors, the various causes of bleeding in meningiomas, the ...
Neurological symptoms sometimes occur in hemodialysis patients, with causes including cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhaging, meningitis, and encephalitis. Dialysis disequilibrium syndrome (DDS) is widely known as a complication of hemodialysis and is typically encountered in severe uremic patients newly ...