title: [Cancer can be a differential diagnosis by psychiatric symptoms].
abstract: We present a patient with psychiatric symptoms as the first manifestation from an undetected brain tumor. The patient had symptoms of psychosis and a prior history with depression. A slight alteration in consciousness was found but no neurological deficits. Blood tests showed increased infection counts and particularly increased creatinine kinase. A large frontal glioma cerebri was found on cranial computed tomography and was surgically removed. The symptoms fully resolved afterwards. Psychosis can present with a variety of symptoms but particularly altered consciousness should arouse suspicion of physical origin.
authors.affiliation: Psykiatrisk Center København, Bispebjerg Bakke 23, 2400 København NV. simone_bendix@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Simone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Eibye
authors.forename: Helene
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Speyer
authors.forename: Michael Eriksen
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Benros
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009837:Oligodendroglioma / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed