Psychosis associated with thymoma.
The case history of a 19-year-old black woman who died the day after she was treated for psychosis is described. The remarkable finding in her mental status was hyper-religiosity and in postmortem was a thymoma. The report discusses the relationship between thymoma and psychosis as well as the need to look for an organic etiology in patients manifesting a sudden psychotic regression with hyper-religiosity.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000209:etiology; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D010808:Physical Examination; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D013945:Thymoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis