title: Comprehensive management of frontal and cerebellar tumor patients with personality changes and suicidal tendencies.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Brain tumor patients have a tendency to suffer from psychiatric disturbances. One of the most frequent disturbance experienced by frontal area tumor patients are personality changes.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this paper, the authors report a 28-year-old male patient who presented with headache and personality changes, with no other neurological disturbance. The patient became increasingly pensive and apathetic with frontal and cerebellopontine angle tumor. The diagnosis is based on computed tomography scanning images, and histopathological examination of the excised tumor results in meningioma.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Before the operation was performed, the patient suffered from personality changes and suicidal tendencies. After the operation, the patient's suicidal tendency was gone, but the personality changes still persist. For this reason, a comprehensive management of the patient is required, including postoperative pharmacological and psychological treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Hasan Sadikin General Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia.
authors.forename: Muhammad Zafrullah
authors.initials: MZ
authors.lastname: Arifin
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Hasan Sadikin General Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia.
authors.forename: Farid
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yudoyono
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Awal Bros Hospital, Tangerang, Jawa Barat, Indonesia.
authors.forename: Cecilia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Setiawan
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Hasan Sadikin General Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia.
authors.forename: Roland
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sidabutar
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Hasan Sadikin General Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia.
authors.forename: Agung Budi
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Sutiono
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Hasan Sadikin General Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia.
authors.forename: Ahmad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Faried
keywords: Brain tumor; comprehensive management; personality changes; suicidal tendencies