Psychiatric symptoms and an anterior cranial fossa meningioma.
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 presenting with psychotic symptoms and seizures for the first time.
Hutchinson
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Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK.
Austin
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Neehall
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D003704:Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe; D006801:Humans; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008579:Meningioma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed