title: ['Histrionic personality disorder with regression and conversion': a meningioma].
abstract: A 47-year-old woman, who was believed to be suffering from histrionic personality disorder with regression and conversion, was finally diagnosed with a frontal meningioma. Patients with meningiomas can present with a variety of psychiatric symptoms, sometimes even before neurological symptoms occur. The diagnosis is often delayed because the symptoms are misleading and it is difficult to modify a psychiatric diagnosis once this has been made. Discussion focuses on the characteristic signs of a meningioma, the reasons for delays in diagnosis and the indications for brain-imaging on psychiatric patients.
authors.affiliation: Arts in Opleiding tot Psychiater, Arkin teAmsterdam. opleiding.psychiatrie@arkin.nl
authors.forename: A M L
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Oude Elberink
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Oudijn
authors.forename: V I H
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Kwa
authors.forename: H L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Van
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006677:Histrionic Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D008579:Meningioma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged