title: Peduncular hallucinosis due to brain metastases from cervix cancer: a case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Brain metastases from cervical carcinoma are rare. Accompanying symptoms depend on the location of the metastatic lesions. Penduncular hallucinosis is a vivid form of hallucination with clinical findings indicating a lesion of the upper midbrain. We hereby report a probable first case of peduncular hallucinosis associated with brain metastases from cervical cancer.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 42-year-old woman had been diagnosed with adenocarcinoma of cervix. On admission for her increasing pelvic pain, she had complex visual hallucinations comprising cartoon children, figurative people and a foggy room. Magnetic resonance imaging of the head revealed a lesion in the left mesencephalothalamic area.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Peduncular hallucinosis is well known for its vivid and life-like characteristics associated with a mesencephalic area lesion, and recognition of this may be useful of its diagnosis and differential diagnosis from confusion and other hallucinations.
authors.affiliation: 1Neurology Department, Medical School, University of Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam, Kahramanmaras.
authors.forename: Mustafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gokce
authors.affiliation: 2Gynecology Department, Ankara Oncology Hospital, Demetevler, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Seval
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Adanali