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Case Reports
. 2000 Jan;39(1):116-9.
doi: 10.1097/00004583-200001000-00024.

Case study: suprasellar germinoma presenting with psychotic and obsessive-compulsive symptoms

D Mordecai  1 , R J Shaw, P G Fisher, P A Mittelstadt, T Guterman, S S Donaldson
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Case study: suprasellar germinoma presenting with psychotic and obsessive-compulsive symptoms

D Mordecai et al. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2000 Jan.

Abstract

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.

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  • Pineal germinoma and psychosis.
    Craven C. Craven C. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2001 Jan;40(1):6. doi: 10.1097/00004583-200101000-00008. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2001. PMID: 11195564 No abstract available.

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