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P-821 - Brain Tumor Patient who is Primarily Directed to Psychiatrictreatment-case Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

Z. Barac-Otasevic
Affiliation:
Psychiatry Clinic, Medical Clinical Centre of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
R. Mastilovic-Cukovic
Affiliation:
Psychiatry Clinic, Medical Clinical Centre of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
L. Radulovic
Affiliation:
Neurology Clinic, Medical Clinical Centre of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro

Abstract

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Psychiatric symptoms are common clinical manifestations of brain tumors.

Brain tumors that manifest symptoms of creased intracranial pressure, focal neurological signs, and routine diagnostic procedures diagnosed by a neurologist, or less commonly,neurosurgeons.

However, “neurologically silent” tumors, are those in which the psychiatric symptoms occur as the first sign of a brain tumor.Patients are then referred psychiatrist.

A case report.

This paper presents a patient diagnosed with a brain tumor, which was primarily addressed to a psychiatrist for treatment for mental disorders, while the neurological findings were without focal outage.

The above presentation the authors want to acknowledge that psychiatric symptoms /disorders in cancer brain are not specific enough and may have an identical clinical presentation as well as functional psychiatric disorders, and therefore, in patients with rapid early psychiatric symptoms, in patients with unexpected changes in mental status or the sudden occurrence of headaches, as well as therapy-resistant psychiatric disorders, you should always bear in mind the possibility of the existence of associated brain tumors.

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