title: [Site-dependent psychopathologic symptoms in brain tumors exemplified by olfactory meningioma].
abstract: Despite the propagation of imaging techniques in recent years, brain neoplasms are still identified too late in many cases, not least because of a disregard or misinterpretation of early psychiatric symptoms. By means of a detailed report of a case of olfactorius meningioma, together with a summary of 13 other cases from the same hospital over the past 15 years, it is demonstrated that a specious psychodynamic "understanding" may delay the correct diagnosis. Possible reasons for the initial false diagnosis are considered in detail.
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Neurologie und Psychiatrie, Universität zu Köln.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schifferdecker
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schmidt
mesh_terms: D003390:Cranial Nerve Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D008579:Meningioma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D009832:Olfactory Nerve / Q000473:pathology; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology
vernacular_title: Lokalisationsbezogene psychopathologische Symptome bei Hirntumoren am Beispiel der Olfaktoriusmeningeome.