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. 2015 Jan-Mar;57(1):91-3.
doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.148534.

Diagnosis of frontal meningioma presenting with psychiatric symptoms

Saurabh Yakhmi  1 , B S Sidhu  2 , Jaswinder Kaur  3 , Amarjit Kaur  4
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Diagnosis of frontal meningioma presenting with psychiatric symptoms

Saurabh Yakhmi et al. Indian J Psychiatry. 2015 Jan-Mar.

Abstract

The frontal lobes of the brain are notoriously "silent": Benign tumors such as meningiomas that compress the frontal lobes from the outside may not produce any symptoms other than progressive change of personality and intellect until they are large. We present two cases with symptoms suggestive of depressive episodes, which on further investigations showed space occupying lesions suggestive of frontal meningiomas.

Keywords: Depressive episode; frontal meningioma; tumor.

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Contrast-enhanced computed tomography head case 1
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