Case study: suprasellar germinoma presenting with psychotic and obsessive-compulsive symptoms.
This case describes a 13-year-old boy who had a suprasellar germinoma involving the bilateral basal ganglia. His presenting symptoms included left-sided weakness, diabetes insipidus, a decline in academic functioning as well as psychotic and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. His neuroradiological findings and clinical symptoms lend support to the potential role of the basal ganglia in psychotic and obsessive-compulsive symptomatology.
Mordecai
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Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305-5719, USA.
Shaw
R J
RJ
Fisher
P G
PG
Mittelstadt
P A
PA
Guterman
T
T
Donaldson
S S
SS
D000293:Adolescent; D001479:Basal Ganglia; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D018237:Germinoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D012658:Sella Turcica